Israeli Army Issues Evacuation Order for Beirut Neighbourhood Amid Hezbollah Strike Concerns

<p data-pm-slice="0 0 []">The Israeli Army on Sunday issued an evacuation order for residents of a southern Beirut neighbourhood, reports news agency Reuters. This is the first such warning in almost a month, in anticipation of a possible strike on what it says are Hezbollah targets.</p> <p>Avichay Adraee, the spokesperson of the Israeli army, posted on X that residents should evacuate several buildings in the Hadath neighbourhood and move &ldquo;at least 300 metres away&rdquo;.</p> <p>According to news agency Reuters, the residents reported hearing gunfire across the area, which they said they believed was intended to warn people to leave.</p> <p>&ldquo;To everyone located in the building marked in red on the attached map, and the surrounding buildings: you are near facilities belonging to Hezbollah,&rdquo; Adraee wrote in a post that included a map of the potential targets.</p> <p>An Israeli air strike, earlier this month, killed four people, including a Hezbollah official, in Beirut&rsquo;s southern suburbs &ndash; the second Israeli strike on a Hezbollah-controlled area of the Lebanese capital in five days. The attacks in the southern suburbs of Beirut have resumed at a time of broader escalation in hostilities in the region, with Israel having restarted Gaza strikes after a two-month truce and the US hitting the Iran-aligned Houthis of Yemen in a bid to get them to stop attacking Red Sea shipping.</p> <p>Israel has dealt severe blows to Hezbollah in the war, has killed thousands of its fighters, has destroyed much of its arsenal, and has eliminated its top leadership.</p> <p>(With input from Reuters)</p>

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