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Israel issued evacuation orders for the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh and launched a series of drone and air strikes across southern Lebanon on Tuesday that killed at least 8 people.
France condemned Israel's deepening occupation, and Tehran reiterated that a ceasefire in Lebanon remained a precondition for any deal to end the broader Middle East war.
The strikes came hours after President Donald Trump said Monday that Israel and Hezbollah had agreed to halt attacks against each other following contacts through intermediaries. "All shooting will stop," Trump had said. It did not.
The Israeli army's Arabic-language spokesman, Colonel Avichay Adraee, posted an urgent warning to Nabatieh's residents on X, framing the evacuation as the result of Hezbollah's conduct.
"In light of the Hezbollah terrorist organization's violation of the ceasefire agreement, the IDF is compelled to act against it with force," Adraee wrote.
"For your safety, you must evacuate your homes immediately and move north of the Zahrani River," he added.
The warning was the second such order issued for Nabatieh, which Israeli forces have been encircling since crossing the Litani River. Israeli troops are now roughly 5 kilometers from the city after capturing Beaufort Castle on Sunday, the same fortress Israel held during its previous 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon that ended in 2000.
Lebanon's state news agency NNA documented the day's strikes in detail. A drone struck a car on the Nabatieh-Khardali road, killing a dentist, his son, and his daughter while they traveled.
In the town of Jebchit, two Syrian workers were killed when a drone hit the plant nursery where they worked. A driver was killed at the Harouf-Toul roundabout in a separate drone attack. Two more people died in drone strikes on a motorcycle in Toul and a car in Ansar.
Israeli aircraft also struck a Lebanese Civil Defense center on the Masil road in Kfar Sir, destroying the facility, though it had been evacuated several days earlier. A dawn airstrike hit Mansouri in the Tyre district, accompanied by artillery shelling.
In Tyre's al-Hosh neighborhood, a house was destroyed and several nearby homes were damaged. Two wounded people were pulled from the rubble and taken to the hospital.
Separately, Lebanon's civil defense agency said that six people had been killed in an Israeli strike on the village of Marwaniyeh, near the coastal city of Sidon.
Rescue operations had been ongoing since the previous night at the site of "a residential building that was targeted," the agency said on Facebook. Six bodies were removed, and three wounded were rescued.
The Marwaniyeh strike occurred more than 12 hours after Israel had ordered residents of the area to evacuate.
Lebanon's Health Ministry says more than 3,400 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since March 2.
France became the latest Western voice to break with Israeli military conduct in Lebanon. Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, speaking to France TV, delivered one of the sharpest European assessments yet.
"Nothing can justify the continuation of military operations and Israel's prolonged occupation deep inside Lebanese territory," Barrot said.
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