Residents received calls ordering them to distance themselves 1km from any Hezbollah post.
JERUSALEM - Israel unleashed its most widespread wave of airstrikes against hundreds of Hezbollah targets on Sept 23, killing at least 100 people by Lebanese tallies, and warned citizens to evacuate areas where it said the armed group was storing weapons.in almost a year of conflict, as Israel shifts its focus to its northern border, where Hezbollah has been firing rockets into Israel in support of its ally Hamas, which is fighting a war with Israel in Gaza.
Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a post on X that so far, more than 300 Hezbollah targets have been struck after earlier warnings that airstrikes on houses in Lebanon, in which “Hezbollah hid weapons” were imminent.Residents of southern Lebanon received calls from a Lebanese number ordering them to immediately distance themselves 1km from any post used by Hezbollah, said a Reuters reporter in the south who received the call.
“If Hezbollah carries out a major operation, Israel will respond and destroy more than this. We can’t bear it,” he said. In a televised statement earlier, Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari said the evacuation warning was being “distributed in Arabic on all networks and platforms in Lebanon”.
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