The Israeli Defence Fire (IDF) issued orders in the early hours of Thursday telling people to leave multiple areas of densely-populated southern Beirut, where it says it will hit Hezbollah sites.
“You are located near facilities and interests belonging to Hezbollah, which the army will act against in the near future,” Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee said in a post on social media site X, naming the Haret Hreik, Burj al-Barajneh and Hadath Gharb areas.
Five people were killed in an IDF air raid on a Hezbollah rescue facility in the heart of Beirut late Wednesday, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
Five people were killed and at least 11 injured in an Israeli raid targeting Bachoura, a district in the centre of the capital, according to a source close to Hezbollah.
AFP journalists in Beirut heard a loud explosion and reported some buildings had shaken in the second strike targeting the capital’s centre this week.
