Turkey’s navy evacuates citizens from Beirut as Israel battles Hezbollah

Turkish citizens walk to board Turkish military ships evacuating them from Lebanon to Turkey, in Beirut port (Emrah Gurel/AP)

Over 2,000 Turkish citizens and some foreign nationals began boarding a Turkish military ship that brought in aid and will take them out of a country being hit by Israeli airstrikes targeting Hezbollah.

Zehra Cibbin, an ethnic Arab from the south-eastern Turkish city of Mardin who lives in Beirut with her Lebanese husband, got off a bus packed with the other evacuees, her two children in tow and luggage in hand.