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Israel Orders Residents to Leave Southern Beirut
- On March 5, the Israeli Army ordered residents to leave Beirut's Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs, with Avichay Adraee posting on X a map showing four districts near Beirut airport to evacuate.
- Monday, Hezbollah opened fire, drawing Lebanon into the conflict and prompting Israeli airstrikes that have killed 77, injured 527, and displaced at least 300,000; on Wednesday, Israel ordered evacuations covering about 8% of southern Lebanon.
- Adraee named Bourj al-Barajneh, Hadath, Haret Hreik and Chiyah and told residents to move east toward Mount Lebanon or head north, while gunfire and clogged roads accompanied the evacuation.
- Israeli bombardment and warnings have displaced tens of thousands this week, prompting more schools in Beirut to host the newly displaced as officials cite increased pressure on Hezbollah.
- Beirut's predominantly Shi'ite Muslim southern suburbs complicate evacuation as Israeli military strikes Hezbollah infrastructure across Lebanon, with no Israeli fatalities reported.
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In Beirut, displaced people grapple with the latest wave of violence
The Globe's Mark MacKinnon describes how central Beirut has become a hub for refugees fleeing Israeli strikes, looking for transport away from southern parts of the city. The UN refugee agency said on Friday that nearly 100,000 people have been displaced within Lebanon and tens of thousands of Syrian refugees there have fled back over the border, calling the situation in the region a "major humanitarian emergency." Israel has issued large-scale
The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has called on Israeli civilians living within a five-kilometer radius of the border to evacuate.
At the sound of the horns begins the forced exodus from Dahieh, at the order of the IDF and with threat of the Israeli minister Smotrich. The suburb to the south of the Lebanese capital is the kingdom of Shiite militias. In the night the raids.
Israel says a new phase of the war has begun. On Thursday evening, new airstrikes began on Lebanon. Images show traffic jams and mass evacuations from the city.
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