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The Israeli army threatened to attack 30 towns in southern Lebanon and called for the immediate evacuation of the area.
Israeli Army Spokesperson Avichay Adraee, in a statement on X, shared the names of 16 villages and towns located in southern Lebanon.
Adraee requested that residents of the southern villages and towns immediately leave their homes, claiming that Hezbollah targets would be bombed.
He stated that residents must move at least 1 kilometer away from Hezbollah posts and should not return to their homes.
In a later statement, Adraee threatened to attack 14 more towns in southern Lebanon.
Stating that attacks would be carried out against Hezbollah elements, facilities, and military vehicles, Adraee asked Lebanese residents living in the 14 towns to leave their areas.
In a statement made by the Israeli army on March 2, it was noted that sirens were activated in the north of the country after rockets were detected being fired from Lebanon.
Subsequently, the Israeli army announced that it had launched airstrikes across Lebanon and targeted the capital, Beirut. It also decided to expand its ground invasion in Lebanon, where it carried out intense air and naval attacks.
Israeli strikes hit a Beirut hotel and residential complex in Lebanon's east, Lebanese state media said Wednesday, as Israel announced broad strikes in response to Hezbollah missile and drone launches.
Lebanese state media said the Israeli attacks targeted a building in Baalbek, in Lebanon's east, far from the border, as well as a hotel in an area of Beirut so far spared from the violence.
In Aramoun and Saadiyat, south of Beirut—two towns outside the traditional strongholds of the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah—the health ministry said Israeli strikes killed six people and wounded eight others. It cautioned that this was a "preliminary toll."
The NNA said the strike on Aramoun hit a residential building. An AFP correspondent in the area saw rescuers getting people out.
It was not immediately clear what was targeted in these towns or in Baalbek, where Lebanon's state-run National News Agency (NNA) said five people were killed in a residential complex.
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