Israel hits Hezbollah sites in Lebanon, Iran-backed terror group warns Israelis
India Today
Israel on Thursday ordered residents of the southern suburbs of Beirut to leave the area before the overnight strikes. Hezbollah, on Friday morning, warned Israelis to leave towns within 5 km of the border.
Israeli airstrikes pounded the southern suburbs of Beirut overnight and on Friday with a bombardment that smashed up city streets in an escalating conflict with Iran-backed Hezbollah that has sent tens of thousands of Lebanese from their homes.
Israel ordered residents of the densely-populated suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, to leave before the airstrikes that lit up the night sky, after earlier saying civilians should quit swathes of southern and eastern Lebanon.
Hezbollah said on Friday morning it was fighting an Israeli ground incursion in the south, targeting a gathering of military vehicles near the town of Khiyam, and telling residents of Israeli communities near the border to leave.
Lebanon was pulled into the war in the Middle East on Monday, when Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel that ignited a new Israeli offensive against the Shi'ite Muslim group 15 months after they agreed a truce following a major 2024 war.
"We’re sleeping here in the streets – some in cars, some on the street, some on the beach," said Jamal Seifeddin, 43, who fled Beirut’s southern suburbs and spent the night outside in the capital's downtown district.
"I've never slept on the ground like this. I've been forced to. No one even brought a blanket," he said.
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