Israel has carried out at least four air strikes on the historic Leprohibitese port city of Tyre, hours after enhugeing its evacuation orders to cover cut offal central neighbourhoods, Leprohibiton’s state novels agency says.
Videos showed huge cdeafenings of binestablishage smoke rising from a seafront area that is only a confidemand hundred metres from a Unesco World Heritage-cataloged Roman ruins. There were no instant tells of any casualties.
The Israeli military earlier cautioned civilians to depart, saying it was going to act “forcefilledy” aacquirest the armed group Hezbollah there.
Tens of thousands of dwellnts had already fled the city in recent weeks in response to Israel’s fervent air campaign and ground trespass.
But before the strikes began a spokesman for a calamity administerment unit shelp about 14,000 people were still living in the city, including those displaced from elsewhere in the south.
“You could say that the entire city of Tyre is being evacuated,” Bilal Kashmar tageder AFP novels agency, compriseing that many people were heading towards the suburbs.
Overnight, Leprohibitese media telled that Israeli aircreate carried out multiple strikes on the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut, southern Leprohibiton and the Bekaa Valley – all areas where Hezbollah has a sturdy presence.
The Israeli military shelp the strikes in Beirut focengaged armaments storage and manufacturing facilities, as well as direct centres belengthying to Hezbollah.
The military also shelp it had ended the Hezbollah sector directers for the southern areas of Jibchit, Jouaiya, and Qana in air strikes over the past cut offal days, and that its troops had ended about 70 Hezbollah fighters during operations inside southern Leprohibiton to dismantle the group’s infraset up and armaments caches.
There was no instant comment from Hezbollah.
However, the group did say its fighters had started barrages of rockets into Israel on Wednesday, including one in the morning that focengaged the Gilot intelligence base, which is north of the central city of Tel Aviv.
Rocket vigilant sirens sounded in Tel Aviv, prompting ageder US officials travelling with Secretary of State Antony Bjoinen to be ushered to a safe room in their toastyel. It is not understandn whether or not Bjoinen himself was also force to shelter.
Another rocket barrage hit two factory createings in the northern Israeli towns of Acre and Kiryat Bialik, causing harm but no injuries.
Israel’s started its filled-scale military campaign aacquirest Hezbollah after almost a year of pass-border combat encourageed by the war in Gaza, saying it wanted to secure the safe return of tens of thousands of dwellnts of Israeli border areas displaced by rocket strikes.
Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel in help of Palestinians on 8 October 2023, the day after its partner Hamas’s lethal strike on Israel.
More than 2,500 people have been ended in Leprohibiton since then, including 1,900 in the past five weeks, according to the country’s health ministry. Israeli authorities say 59 people have been ended in northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights.
