Car in Lebanon’s Baabda on fire after Israeli drone attack
Lebanese media outlets have released footage, verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency, of a car on fire after an Israeli drone attack in the Araya area of Baabda district in Mount Lebanon Governorate. Lebanese army personnel closed off one side of the road and kept citizens away from the burning car.
The Lebanese News Agency reported on its official website that an Israeli drone hit a car on the Araya road, causing it to catch fire. The target and potential casualties are still unclear.
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Fifteen projectiles detected from Lebanon: Israeli army
Israeli forces say its air force intercepted some of them, it said, adding that “crashes were detected”.
Earlier, the Israeli army said it intercepted five drones launched from Lebanon, and one fell in the industrial zone in Nahariya, northern Israel. Israeli media reported that it hit a factory producing aircraft components.
Israeli army issues more displacement orders for southern villages
The Israeli army has issued a new wave of enforced displacement orders for at least eight towns in southern Lebanon. “For your safety, you must evacuate your homes immediately and move to the north of the Awali River. To ensure your safety, you must evacuate without delay,” a spokesperson said on X.
Civilians are prohibited from heading south, it added.
Hundreds of villages in the country’s south have been evacuated for an area that the United Nations estimates covers a quarter of Lebanon’s territory.
Israeli threat on Baalbek ‘another strain on the system’
This is a significant chunk of Baalbek that has been put under these evacuation orders and let’s call evacuation orders what they are. They’re effectively a kill zone – if you remain behind, Israel says that you are a fair target.
Now, that despite the fact that Israel does have under international humanitarian law a responsibility to any civilians left behind after they give those orders, but people are taking them seriously. They’re already fleeing. We’ve heard from the governor of Baalbek telling people to go to safe areas, to avoid certain roads.
No air strikes have taken place as of yet, but people are very worried that those are going to come in very, very quickly.
People used to be able to go to Tyre, but that’s actually being bombed by the Israelis as well. Some people are coming to Beirut, to other areas, but there aren’t any government shelters that are receiving people.
If you have the money for a hotel and you can find a hotel, how much longer can you stay there if you’ve left everything behind, including the way you make money, your livelihood?
It’s another strain on the system, and we are expecting these air strikes to take place in Baalbek very shortly.
