Jillian Kennedy of Ireland, an evacuee from Lebanon, stands with her baggage after arriving on a Spanish plane at the Torrejon military airbase, just outside of Madrid, Saturday July 15, 2006. The plane with 116 Spaniards and several foreigners, four Italians, two Dutch, one Briton, one Irish, one American, one Moroccan and one Egyptian who were evacuated from Lebanon and arrived at Madrid's military Torrejon airport.
A couple hug their daughter(L) and granddaughter upon their arrival in Athens from Beirut via Damascus. Foreign governments were drawing up plans for a voluntary evacuation of their nationals from Lebanon as Israel kept up airstrikes on its neighbour in retaliation for attacks by Hezbollah militants
Mostly Saudi-Arabian foreign citizens wait to board a bus evacuating people to Damascus, Syria, outside a hotel in Beirut, Lebanon Saturday, July 15, 2006