Israeli army issues new forced displacement orders for Lebanon
Israel’s military again threatened to imminently attack several buildings in southern Beirut, telling residents in the vicinity to urgently flee.
In a post on X, Israel’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, posted a map with several buildings in Beirut’s southern suburbs of Ghobeiry and Hadath that he identified as targets.
“For your safety and the safety of your family members, you must evacuate these buildings and those adjacent to them immediately,” he said.
Minutes earlier, he also ordered people in southern Lebanon’s Baalbek and Qsarnaba regions to flee for their lives.
Hezbollah lawmaker says group’s facilities were not struck
A Hezbollah member of parliament, Amin Sherri, said no facilities belonging to the armed group had been hit in areas of the Lebanese capital that were struck this evening.
His comments were carried in a newsflash on Hezbollah television station Al-Manar after Israel began a series of strikes on central Beirut, following its first-ever forcible evacuation threats for four locations within the city limits.
Israeli jets strike targets in western Syria: Report
Syria’s official SANA news agency reports Israel has carried out an air attack on two villages in Homs.
Lebanon announces more deaths in Israeli attacks
As Israeli forces intensify air strikes on Beirut and other areas across Lebanon, here is a breakdown of the latest casualties, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry:
- Three killed, 10 wounded in central Beirut’s Barbour area.
- Six killed in Chaqra, a town in southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil district.
- Two killed in Rashidieh in the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre.
Israeli strikes on Lebanon’s Baalbek kill 10 people
The National News Agency reports at least six people have been killed in an Israeli air raid on a house in Baalbek in southern Lebanon. Another strike on a different house, also in Baalbek, killed at least four other people, the agency said.
Israel has intensified its bombing of Lebanon before a possible ceasefire with the Lebanese group Hezbollah.
