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Israeli attacks targeting eastern and southern Lebanon
As we’ve been reporting, more attacks have been launched on Lebanon by the Israeli army, with its spokesperson saying “preemptive strikes” targeted Hezbollah sites.
Our colleagues on the ground are reporting that the attacks targeted towns in eastern and southern Lebanon.
The raids targeted the towns of al-Tayri, Bint Jbeil, Hanine, Zawtar, and the Nabatieh region in southern Lebanon, as well as the areas surrounding the Shaara, Harbata, and Hermel regions, and the areas surrounding the towns of Shamstar, Taria, and Bouday in eastern Lebanon.
The Israeli military, in a rare appeal, told people in Lebanon to move away from what it called Hezbollah targets as it said it would carry out more strikes.
“We advise civilians from Lebanese villages located in and next to buildings and areas used by Hezbollah for military purposes, such as those used to store weapons, to immediately move out of harm’s way for their own safety,” military spokesman Daniel Hagari told journalists.
People walk at a beach as smoke billows over southern Lebanon following Israeli attacks
One killed, 4 wounded in Israeli attacks on Lebanon
Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) is reporting that at least one civilian has been killed in the new wave of Israeli air strikes targeting eastern and southern Lebanon.
The NNA reported that “enemy warplanes launched … more than 80 air strikes in half an hour”, targeting south Lebanon’s Nabatiyeh district. It also reported strikes in the Tyre area.
At the same time, the NNA reported “intense raids in the Bekaa” Valley in the east, deep inside Lebanon near the Syrian border, including in the vicinity of Baalbek and the outskirts of Hermel.
The NNA said the strikes in the east killed a “civilian”, a shepherd, “and wounded two members of his family” and four others.
Israel tells Lebanese residents to flee amid intense air attacks
Around 4:30 GMT, we heard a number of strikes. I counted 10 just in the vicinity around me.
The Israeli army said it mounted intensive strikes this morning as Israeli fighters launched dozens of air strikes in scattered areas in southern and eastern Lebanon.
In Tyre, which is about 80km from Beirut, strikes hit Hosh, Qasimia, and Bazouriyeh. We’ve seen the pictures from there. They seem to be very large strikes, and towns across the southern Lebanon border, including al-Tayba.
Now in the Bekaa region, in the east of Lebanon, the Israeli army says they hit Nabi Rachad, Tarayya, Shmestar and Bodai, which are a very concentrated ring of towns in the Bekaa.
The Israeli army spokesman has also issued an urgent warning to villages in Lebanon. He says, “If you’re inside or near a building used by Hezbollah to store weapons or combat equipment, you must evacuate the building and move away from it immediately. Anyone who is near Hezbollah elements or weapons is putting himself at risk.”
Rocket hits area in Lebanon previously not targeted
A rocket hit an uninhabited mountainside east of the Lebanese port city of Byblos, according to Lebanon’s state media and a resident Reuters spoke to. The area was not hit previously by air strikes in months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.
Lebanese media reports that in addition to the one civilian killed in Israeli attacks across eastern and southern Lebanon, 17 people have been wounded. Israeli jets launched more than 80 air raids within 30 minutes early this morning.
A Lebanese shepherd was killed and six people were injured, including two family members, in an attack in Bodai in eastern Lebanon, state media reported. The Health Ministry said 11 more people were wounded in another strike in Aitaroun, southern Lebanon.
