US EditionIsrael strikes Beirut’s southern suburbs after issuing a blanket evacuation order
Israel’s military campaign against Hezbollah has displaced over 90,000 people in southern Lebanon, with air and ground strikes targeting Hezbollah strongholds and border areas.
- 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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Lebanon: Israeli military’s overly broad mass evacuation orders sowing panic and fuelling humanitarian suffering
Responding to Israel’s use of repeated, overly broad evacuation orders across Lebanon over the past four days, including to more than 100 villages and towns in the country’s south and east, as well as the entirety of Beirut’s southern suburbs, displacing hundreds of thousands of people, Kristine Beckerle, Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East […]
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Blanket evacuation orders in Lebanon raise international law concerns, says UN human rights chief
GENEVA, March 6 - Large-scale evacuation orders issued by the Israeli army for southern Lebanon and Beirut's southern suburbs raise serious concerns under international law, the U.N. human rights chief said on Friday. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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