{"id":2294443,"date":"2024-07-14T03:16:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-14T07:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-rescue-non-profit-to-evacuate-americans-as-tensions-between-israel-and-lebanon-reach-a-breaking-point-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-14T03:18:27","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T07:18:27","slug":"us-rescue-non-profit-to-evacuate-americans-as-tensions-between-israel-and-lebanon-reach-a-breaking-point-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/us-rescue-non-profit-to-evacuate-americans-as-tensions-between-israel-and-lebanon-reach-a-breaking-point-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"US rescue non profit to evacuate Americans as tensions between Israel and Lebanon reach a breaking point &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fus-rescue-non-profit-to-evacuate-americans-as-tensions-between-israel-and-lebanon-reach-a-breaking-point-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2294443&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the escalating tensions between Israel \u2064and\u200d Lebanon, \u200bwith fears of war looming\u200b between\u200c Israel and Hezbollah. As an estimated 86,000 Americans \u2062remain in Lebanon, concerns arise about their safety in the event of conflict. A rescue nonprofit called Grey Bull Rescue, \u2062led by\u200d Bryan Stern, has set up operations in Lebanon to evacuate Americans who may be left behind in case of a\u200c war. \u2064With Lebanon presenting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mahomes-mother-sends-mocking-message-to-brady-wife-gisele-bundchen\/\" title=\"Mahomes\u2019 Mother Sends Mocking Message To Brady Wife Gisele Bundchen\">unique challenges<\/a> for evacuation, including its single \u200doperational airport, Beirut\u2013Rafic \u2063Hariri \u2064International Airport, Stern discusses the difficulties of planning for potential evacuations by\u2062 sea or\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-nationals-analyst-removed-after-anonymous-sexual-abuse-allegations-made-on-social-media\/\" title=\"Washington Nationals Analyst Removed After Anonymous Sexual Abuse Allegations Made On Social Media\">air due<\/a> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-state-department-gives-official-guidance-to-americans-trapped-inside-ukraine-amid-russian-invasion\/\" title=\"U.S. State Department Gives Official Guidance To Americans Trapped Inside Ukraine Amid Russian Invasion\">potential risks involved<\/a>. The article also highlights the\u2064 possibility of the \u2064Beirut \u200bairport being a target for the Israeli\u200b Air Force due to rumors of\u200d Hezbollah storing weapons there, which could lead to widespread destruction and render the \u200cairport unusable. Despite the risks, \u200dStern remains\u2064 committed to aiding\u200b in rescuing\u2063 Americans \u200cfrom Lebanon in the midst of escalating tensions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">\n<div class=\"tdb-search-form-inner\"><input class=\"tdb-head-search-form-input\" placeholder=\" \" type=\"text\" value name=\"s\" autocomplete=\"off\"><button class=\"wpb_button wpb_btn-inverse btn tdb-head-search-form-btn\" title=\"Search\" type=\"submit\"><span>Search<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">US rescue nonprofit to evacuate Americans as tensions between Israel and Lebanon reach a breaking point<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span> <a class=\"tdb-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/brady-knox\/\">Brady Knox<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-07-14T03:00:00-04:00\">July 14, 2024 3:00 am<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1696129\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>As war between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Israel\">Israel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Israel\">Hezbollah<\/a> looms, an estimated 86,000 Americans remain in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/lebanon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Lebanon\">Lebanon<\/a>, potentially being caught in the crossfire.<\/p>\n<p>A war between Israel and Hezbollah would likely spark the most destructive war in the region in decades and lay waste to vast swathes of Israel and Lebanon. In the event of war and evacuation, most Americans would be evacuated by the United States military \u2014 15,000 were evacuated by the military during the 2006 war. But for those who miss extraction, a rescue nonprofit has set up shop in Lebanon to extract those left behind.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mourners chant slogans during the funeral procession of Hezbollah senior commander Taleb Sami Abdullah, 55, known within Hezbollah as Hajj Abu Taleb, who was killed late Tuesday by an Israeli strike in south Lebanon, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, June 12, 2024. (AP Photo\/Bilal Hussein)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/greybullrescue.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Grey Bull Rescue\">Grey Bull Rescue<\/a>, led by Bryan Stern, was founded in August 2021, after the botched U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Since then, the organization says it has rescued over 7,000 people across 35 different countries, funded by donations.<\/p>\n<p>With rumors of war heating up, the next major target appears to be Lebanon, where Stern has set up shop in preparation. The country presents its own, unique challenges to evacuation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe biggest [challenge] is that there\u2019s only one airport,\u201d Stern told the <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> in an interview. \u201cSo very often I can find a backup or an alternate \u2026 So it\u2019s either by air or by sea. I\u2019m not going to bring Americans into Syria; that doesn\u2019t work. Yeah, that\u2019s not going to work out well at all. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, can\u2019t go south, because I\u2019m going into Hezbollah territory and then into the Israeli war machine, into the war. So that doesn\u2019t make sense,\u201d he added. \u201cSo this\u2026 this will be largely a maritime operation to a neighboring country\u2026 which is a challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The single operational commercial airport, the Beirut\u2013Rafic Hariri International Airport, also serves as a prime target for the Israeli Air Force in the event of war.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody actually knows, but it is rumored that Hezbollah stores a tremendous amount of munitions, missiles, and explosives, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>guns<\/a>, and whatever else at Beirut airport, that gets flown in from Iran and stored at the airport,\u201d Stern said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Workers unload a shipment from an airplane during a tour for journalists and diplomats at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, June 24, 2024. The tour comes a day after a British newspaper published a story, citing anonymous airport workers, claiming that Hezbollah is storing weapons at the airport, as monthslong clashes with the Israeli military on the Lebanon-Israel border have significantly escalated in recent weeks. (AP Photo\/Bilal Hussein)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf Israel targets just the munitions \u2026 it\u2019s going to hit all the munition sites. If that happens, we\u2019ll see\u2026 secondary explosions that look a lot like or bigger than the explosion that happened here in 2020 at the port, which took out 30 or 40 or 50 city blocks,\u201d he continued. \u201cSo the explosion, the secondary explosion \u2026 [will] render the airport unusable, at least for a while. Probably the tower goes, probably radar goes, probably communications goes. So at that point, everybody will go bananas, and people will need to evacuate because the war will start and there won\u2019t be an airport to to leave from, or at least not one that functions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, a strike at the Beirut airport isn\u2019t guaranteed. Hezbollah is based primarily in the Shiite stronghold in the south, and Israeli ground operations would likely be confined there. Stern believes a strike on the airport is more likely than not, as the Israel Defense Forces will aim to cut off Hezbollah\u2019s supply lines. If they do, it would serve as a \u201ctriggering moment for all sides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previous evacuations have involved various levels of danger. When asked what a typical rescue mission is like, Stern said it\u2019s impossible to say.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, it\u2019s like \u2026 it\u2019s like asking \u2026 what\u2019s a typical teenager like? Each one of these things is different. There\u2019s nothing cookie-cutter about them, especially when you\u2019re doing them yourself. They\u2019re all very various levels of risk,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve taken missile fire, artillery fire, small arms,\u201d Stern continued. \u201cWe\u2019ve had in Haiti, our contact was getting shot at all kinds of stuff. So, you know, there\u2019s nothing really cookie cutter, other than you have people in a place that they don\u2019t want to be anymore, and they\u2019re having a hard time getting out of that place, and need to get to someplace better. And there\u2019s no easy way to do that other than that. They\u2019re all different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1696129\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1696129\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><a class=\"tdb-logo-a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" title=\"Washington Examiner\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-img-wrap\"><\/span><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-logo-text-title\">Washington Examiner<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US nonprofit organization is preparing to evacuate Americans from Lebanon as tensions between Israel and Hezbollah escalate. The organization, Grey Bull Rescue, led by Bryan Stern, has been rescuing people in various countries since 2021. With the potential for war looming, Stern has set up operations in Lebanon, where the challenges of evacuation include limited transportation options and the risk of the Beirut airport being targeted. Despite the dangers involved in rescue missions, Stern remains committed to helping those in need<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2653,"featured_media":2294444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/AP24164475799117.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17713,34968,5290,12701,9029],"class_list":["post-2294443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-evacuation","tag-israel-lebanon-tensions","tag-non-profit","tag-rescue","tag-us"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/AP24164475799117.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2294444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}