European governments are urging their citizens in Lebanon to leave immediately due to escalating hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, which show no signs of easing. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer told British citizens not to wait for a contingency plan to be implemented but to evacuate immediately, saying, “The time to leave is now.” “There are still commercial flights. It’s very important that they hear my message, which is to leave and to leave immediately,” he said. Roughly 700 UK troops will be mobilised to Cyprus as part of the government’s contingency plans, the British foreign mini…