Canada’s military has drawn up evacuation plans to extract about 20,000 Canadians from Lebanon as tensions intensify and threats of full-scale scale fighting increase, Al Jazeera reports.

The Canadian news outlet CBC reported that General Wayne Eyre, the chief of the defence staff, said that the plan relied on Canada’s allies to help facilitate the evacuation.

“We can’t do it alone,” Eyre said. “It will very much be a coalition effort, and we are tightly tied in — very tight — with our allies.”

But despite the plans for a possible evacuation, Eyre acknowledged that he was “very concerned” about the prospect a conflict between Israel and Hezbollah this summer.

He added that a military team was currently in Lebanon and coordinating with the embassy in Beirut.