BEIRUT: Three Lebanese soldiers were killed in Israeli strikes on Tuesday, the Lebanese army said, as Israel carried out new raids and again ordered residents of vast parts of southern Lebanon to evacuate.
Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war on March 2 when pro-Iran Hezbollah launched rockets toward Israel in response to US-Israeli strikes that killed Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Israel has responded with intense strikes in multiple Lebanese regions and ground operations in the south, with its finance minister saying this month that Beirut’s suburbs would soon “resemble” the badly damaged Gazan city of Khan Yunis.
From Geneva, the UN rights office said Tuesday that threats by Israeli officials “to impose the same level of destruction on Lebanon as inflicted in Gaza are wholly unacceptable.”
In the southern city of Sidon, far from the border, displaced people were sleeping in their cars parked along the seafront corniche, according to an AFP team there.
