IDF hits an area near Beirut airport after fresh evacuation orders
Huge explosions were seen near Beirut airport last night and early this morning after Israel issued fresh evacuation orders.
Reports from the Lebanese capital said an area just outside the airport has been hit.
According to MailOnline, the attacks are thought to have been launched by the IDF, which earlier ordered the evacuation of villages and towns in southern Lebanon that are north of a United Nations-declared buffer zone established after the 2006 war.
Israel told people to leave Nabatieh, a provincial capital, and other communities north of the Litani River, which formed the northern edge of the border zone established by the UN Security Council after the 2006 war in a resolution that both sides accuse the other of violating.
In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health authorities claimed at least 16 were killed in an Israeli air strike on the Tulkarm refugee camp.
Meanwhile, leaders of the G7 outlined their concern over the ‘deteriorating situation’ in the Middle East and warned of ‘uncontrollable escalation’.
At least nine Israeli soldiers have been killed in clashes with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, where Israel announced the start of what it says is a limited ground incursion earlier this week.
Meanwhile, the region is bracing for Israeli retaliation following an Iranian ballistic missile attack.
