Several strikes hit the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh on Tuesday after an unprecedented Israeli evacuation warning, an AFP correspondent said, a day after at least 11 were killed in a strike in the country’s east.
Hezbollah meanwhile said it confronted Israeli troops trying to advance into a town that overlooks the city.
The latest strikes come after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday ordered his military to intensify attacks on Hezbollah to “crush” the Iran-backed group. Avichay Adraee, the Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesman said on X on Tuesday that residents of the entire city “must evacuate your homes immediately and move north of the Zahrani River.”
An AFP correspondent in the city reported airstrikes following the warning and saw plumes of smoke rising from various locations within it. Largely deserted since the start of the latest Israel-Hezbollah war on March 2, Nabatieh has faced relentless strikes despite an April 17 truce.