Middle East crisis live: IDF urges some residents of southern Lebanon to evacuate amid strikes on Hezbollah targets | Israel

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The Israeli military said on Monday it was conducting extensive strikes against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon and urged villagers in the country’s south near areas used by the militant group to evacuate.

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The strikes comes amid some of the heaviest cross-border exchanges of fire in nearly a year of conflict.

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The chief Israeli military spokesperson, R Adm Daniel Hagari, said on Monday the Israel Defense forces had begun “striking terrorist targets throughout Lebanon” after “indications that Hezbollah was preparing to fire towards Israeli territory”.

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Hagari said in a video posted on X: “We advise civilians in Lebanese villages located in and next to buildings and areas used by Hezbollah for military purposes – such as those used to store weapons – to immediately move out of harm’s way for their own safety.”

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Monday’s strikes came a day after the Iranian-backed Hezbollah sent rockets deep into northern Israeli territory. The militant group fired more than 100 rockets early on Sunday across a deep and wide area of northern Israel, some landing near the city of Haifa. The barrage came after an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Friday killed at least 45 people, including one of Hezbollah’s top leaders.

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Hezbollah deputy chief Naim Qassem said at the funeral of one of the group’s commanders killed: “We have entered a new phase, the title of which is the open-ended battle of reckoning.”

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Following the shootout, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned of “the risk of Lebanon being transformed”. [into] “Another Gaza”

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