The Croatian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs on Monday called on Croatian citizens staying in Lebanon to leave the West Asian country due to the deteriorating security situation.

Croatia has joined a number of countries that have already asked their citizens to leave Lebanon as the security situation there could deteriorate rapidly in anticipation of an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East.

Croatians are urged to leave Lebanon while commercial flights are still taking place, according to a statement from the ministry on Platform X.

The USA, the United Kingdom, Australia, France, Canada, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Turkey and Jordan have already asked their nationals to leave Lebanon.

Tensions have risen since the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Palestinian group Hamas, in Tehran on Wednesday, a day after an Israeli raid in Beirut killed Fuad Shukr, a senior military commander of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.