The Israeli military said on Thursday it had begun new strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure around the southern Lebanese city of Tyre after issuing an evacuation warning to its residents.
Israel the previous day had declared all areas south of Lebanon’s Zahrani River – an area roughly 40 kilometres (25 miles) from the border and including Tyre – as “combat zones” and told residents to evacuate ahead of attacks against Iran-backed Hezbollah.
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The sweeping warning – the first of its kind since an April 17 ceasefire – came as many Lebanese tried to celebrate the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
In a fresh evacuation order to residents of parts of Tyre early on Thursday, the Israeli military said it was “compelled to take forceful action” against Hezbollah and announced in a later statement on Telegram that it had begun strikes it said targeted the group’s infrastructure.
