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Fox News is gets low marks on their reporting about this. They built up a non breaking story about denying entry, it turned out that entry was going forward and then Fox hyped up the original breaking " Israel denies entry".

That's like reporting:

3:00pm: BREAKING !!! Reagan had died from his wounds!
3:00pm to 3:15......follow up conjecture and speculation

3:15pm This just in, Reagan did not die of his wounds, he's doing fine.

3:16pm: Replay....BREAKING !!! Reagan had died from his wounds!
3:16pm to 3:30. Replay conjecture and speculation

If the israeli military did not think the port was secure, why not just say that?
I think John & his producer need to improve.

Fox reported earlier that Orient Queen (OQ) can handle up to 1,000 people for the short trip from Beirut to Cyprus. (Normal Cruise Capacity is 750) - But you have to consider how long it takes to load people on to the ship. It could be that only one ship will be allowed in to port at a time for safety reasons while the other ships are held back by Israeli patrol boats that are about 2 hours out from the port. So one ship may have sailed and next ship will be in port about 1 hour after the one before it has left. Plus all the ships and ferries are not wanting to be in the hot zone during nightfall.