The German Foreign Office said on Monday it estimates that some 1,800 German nationals are currently in Lebanon as the country faces a massive escalation in the decades-long conflict between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia. A Foreign Office spokesman said that about 1,800 people have registered on the ministry’s crisis preparedness list ELEFAND. The system enables Germans abroad to be quickly informed by German representatives in acute situations and included in possible crisis measures such as evacuations. Following almost a year of cross-border skirmishes, Israel launched a larg…