Israel orders evacuation of more Lebanese towns; Hezbollah strikes

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on Oct. 12, 2024. An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man walks past a mosque at the start of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur in Jerusalem on Oct. 11, 2024.

The Israeli military ordered residents of 23 southern Lebanese villages on Saturday to evacuate to areas north of the Awali River, which flows from the western Bekaa Valley into the Mediterranean.