International evacuation from Lebanon reaches peak

A young girl helps her parents pulling their luggage on July 21, 2006 as they are evacuated by the French embassy from Beirut. Thousands of foreigners huddled in makeshift transit centres, weary but relieved, as governments around the world ramped up a mass evacuation from the raging conflict in Lebanon.(Xinhua/AFP photo)

A young girl helps her parents pulling their luggage on July 21, 2006 as they are evacuated by the French embassy from Beirut. Thousands of foreigners huddled in makeshift transit centres, weary but relieved, as governments around the world ramped up a mass evacuation from the raging conflict in Lebanon.(Xinhua/AFP photo)

American citizens board the transport dock ship USS Trenton in Beirut July 21, 2006. International evacuation from Lebanon has reached a peak as the Israel-Hizbollah armed conflict entered its 10th day. Tens of thousands of foreign nationals have been fleeing Lebanon as Israel has intensified its air raids on Lebanese targets since launching a massive assault on July 12 when Lebanon's Hizbollah guerillas kidnapped two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in cross-border attacks. Around 11,500 people, most of them foreigners, fled Lebanon and arrived in Cyprus alone, Cypriot Foreign Minister George Lillikas announced on July 20. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)

A German lady cries on the evacuation to Beirut from Lebanon on July 21, 2006. She will return Germany from Beirut. International evacuation from Lebanon has reached a peak as the Israel-Hizbollah armed conflict entered its 10th day. Tens of thousands of foreign nationals have been fleeing Lebanon as Israel has intensified its air raids on Lebanese targets since launching a massive assault on July 12 when Lebanon's Hizbollah guerillas kidnapped two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in cross-border attacks. Around 11,500 people, most of them foreigners, fled Lebanon and arrived in Cyprus alone, Cypriot Foreign Minister George Lillikas announced on July 20. (Xinhua/AFP Photo)