US EditionIsrael orders evacuation of swathe of south Lebanon
- On Wednesday, Israel ordered the evacuation of southern Lebanon, including Tyre, telling residents to move north of the Litani River with the broadest order yet covering the area between the border and the river.
- Hezbollah launched drones and rockets on Monday, claiming attacks on Tuesday and Wednesday, including a precision-guided missile, saying it aimed to avenge Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
- Lebanese health ministry reported Israeli strikes since Monday killed at least 50 people and wounded 335, while an airstrike in Baalbek killed six and wounded 15 amid ongoing rescue efforts.
- The Israeli military said it attacked more than 250 Hezbollah targets across Lebanon and is positioning troops farther into Lebanon to prevent attacks, declining to disclose locations.
- Lebanon has emerged as a major theatre in a wider regional war after United States and Israel strikes, with Lebanese authorities recording displacement of more than 58,000 people.
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HRW says Israel’s Lebanon evacuation risks violating laws of war
Human Rights Watch said on Thursday that the Israeli military's call for residents of vast areas of southern Lebanon to evacuate raised "serious risks of violations of the laws of war". Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war when Iran-backed Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel, with Israel conducting air strikes across the country and its troops pushing into border towns. On Thursday, Israel renewed its warning to residents of hundreds …
The conflict against Iraq has intensified not only in the air but also on the ground. Israel has decided to deploy its troops into southern Lebanon. Israeli forces are now active in nine Lebanese towns close to the region's border. This administrative action is being carried out under Operation Hezbollah. This move is crucial for security control in southern Lebanon and is likely to escalate regional tensions.
The objective could be to establish a control zone up to the Litani River, which runs between 4 and 30 kilometres from the Lebanon-Israel demarcation line, i.e. almost 8 per cent of Lebanese territory.
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