Should the British taxpayers pay for the repatriation of British Passport holders from Lebanon?
Your travel insurance probably excludes repatriation from war zones and civil unrest. It probably covers repatriation for medical reasons. But to answer your question if I was caught in a war zone then I would want out as soon as possible and wouldn’t want to have to think about paying for it. If people can afford to pay towards their repatriation then they should do so once the dust has settled, but some of these people will have had to leave everything behind and may never recover from the trauma. Many of the people evacuated would have been living and working in The Lebanon, some for many years so travel insurance would not apply. Perhaps their employers should pay for their rescue???? should any charity and aid workers and organisations be exempt from any contribution towards rescue? again I don’t know….. is the risk part of the job????
