I was thinking the same thing. Maybe they are the non essential embassy workers or family members
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A senior IDF officer disclosed on Saturday that Hezbullah has been hiding a large quantity of long-range rockets in specially-designed rooms built in houses in Southern Lebanon villages, operating under the assumption that the Israeli army will have difficulty in locating them and that it would prefer not to harm villages.
(No surprise to anybody here, but a sampling of the stories on that Jewish blogspot link.)