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Lebanon's only international airport has faced a fresh series of flight cancellations on Tuesday as Israel's brutal onslaught on the country entered its second day.

Over 30 airlines cancelled flights to Lebanon, where more than 560 people have so far been killed since Israel's expanded its cross-border attacks on the country, targeting it with wider indiscriminate attacks which had seen an influx of displacement.

Videos shared online earlier on Tuesday showed Israeli jets over Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport, where some passengers had waited in an attempt to get on any possible flight out of the country.

Cyprus Airways, Flydubai, Air Arabia, Iraqi Airways, Qatar Airways and Etihad Airways were the latest airliners to join others which had already suspended flights to Beirut.Ìý

Lufthansa airline had previously announced it had stopped all flights to Beirut until 26 October, while Air France cancelled all flights until 1 October, according to .

Romanian airlineÌýTAROM suspended its flights until 4 October, while German airlineÌýSundair had suspended its flights from Berlin to Beirut until 30 September.

On Monday,ÌýPegasus Airlines canceled fourÌýscheduled flights for Tuesday, while Qatar Airways cancelled its two daily flights on 24 and 25 September.

EgyptAir said in a statement it had cancelled flights from Cairo to Beirut "until the situation in the country stabilises", while Turkish Airlines also cancelled flights scheduled for 24 and 25 September, and JordanÌýsuspended flights to Beirut "until further notice".

Lebanon's national airline, Middle East Airlines (MEA), continued to operate normally and was "arranging additional flights to fill the gap after other airlines stopped flying to Lebanon", according to a statement by Jean Abboud, the president of theÌýUnion of Owners of Travel and Tourism Agencies, cited by the national news agency NNA.

Abboud also said there was a "30 to 40 percent drop" in flights from Beirut's airport, adding that the traffic at the airport had seen a "significant dropÌý in recent days, after around 14 airlines had suspended flights to and from Lebanon due to the security and military developments in the country".

Many foreign airlines also suspended flights to Israel's Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.

British Airways has cancelled flights to and from Tel Aviv, while flight data from the Flight Radar tracking website has shown that Wizz Air and Azerbaijan Airlines had also cancelled flights, according to theÌýBBC.