Also, there are 40 US college students holed up at American University..but conditions aren't really good.
According to this .. and it was posted a little over an hour ago .. the State Dept. is telling Americans to stay put.
American college students hole up in Beirut"
"Rockets roar overhead
"The ships are all about a few hundred meters from my balcony," she said. As rockets fly overhead, "The sound is awful."
The group is holed up in a low floor on the dormitory, one that is "not a proper shelter," she said. She has access to clean water and some food she bought at a local store during the day, but not much. There are no school officials nearby, so the students are running the shelter operations by themselves.
"It's literally being run by 19-year-olds," she said. "We don't know what to do."
"I just want to go home," she added.
Prospects of that aren't good right now. Beirut airport, about 10 miles south of the school, is closed, bombed earlier this week by Israeli warplanes.
U.S. State Department officials are discussing the possibility of evacuation with the Defense Department, but for now, the roughly 25,000 U.S. citizens in Lebanon are being told to stay put.
b"There aren't any ... reliable ways to get out by air, land or sea," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Friday. U.S. citizens are being told to "assess what is best for their own personal security."
If conditions change and a reliable way out emerges, Americans are urged to leave, McCormack told NBC's Libby Leist. Administrators at the American University of Beirut also are telling its students they are safest where they are. The school is not affiliated with American University in Washington, D.C.
‘Never been bombed’
“(The school) has never been bombed, even during the civil war,” university spokeswoman Ada H. Porter said from New York. “Even during the civil war, all factions respected our borders. We have always had a major hospital that treated everybody, and it has never been closed.”
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Hopefully, you have water/liquids, some food, and a sound structure to bunk in. God bless you, and please .. keep us posted.
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