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Hind Al Soulia - Riyadh - BEIRUT — Israel launched a series of strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut Thursday after ordering all residents of the densely populated area to evacuate.
Traffic was gridlocked in Lebanon ‘s capital on Thursday as panicked residents tried to flee after Israel’s military issued an evacuation notice telling residents to “save your lives and evacuate your homes immediately,” and specified which routes they should take to escape.
The Israeli military says it is targeting Hezbollah across Lebanon, with Beirut's south seen as a stronghold for the Iran-backed armed group.
"The Defense Army has launched a wave of airstrikes targeting Hezbollah's terrorist infrastructure in Beirut's southern suburbs," a spokesperson for the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said on X.
Following the evacuation orders, traffic jams formed on main roads heading north and south as panicked residents complied with the unprecedented blanket demand covering the area.
Before the latest strikes, Lebanon said more than 120 people had been killed and nearly 700 wounded by airstrikes since Monday. At least 90,000 are displaced.
The Israeli order came after the military also told all residents of a huge swathe of southern Lebanon near the Israeli border to leave on Wednesday, ahead of an anticipated ground incursion.
Hezbollah has warned Israelis living within 5km of the Lebanese border to leave their homes.
Lebanese authorities have said at least 102 people have been killed in Israeli strikes over the past four days. There have been no reports of fatalities by Israeli authorities.
Israeli aircraft have carried out waves of strikes targeting Hezbollah in Beirut's southern suburbs, southern Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa Valley since Monday, when the group launched rockets and drones over the border in retaliation for the assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
It pulled Lebanon into the war between Israel, the US and Iran, only 15 months after a ceasefire deal ended more than a year of full-on fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that devastated the country.
On Wednesday, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem vowed the Shia militia and political party would confront Israel "to the point of the utmost sacrifice, to the furthest limits", adding: "We will not surrender."
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It came a day after the Israeli military's chief of staff, Lt Gen Eyal Zamir, said it was "determined to eliminate the threat Hezbollah poses and will not stop until the terror organisation is disarmed".
The Israeli military said on Thursday that it had carried out strikes overnight on several Hezbollah command centres in Beirut, which it alleged were intended to be used to plan and carry out attacks on Israeli troops and civilians.
The Lebanese health ministry said at least three people were killed in Israeli air strikes on vehicles on the main road to the city's airport.
A residential building on the outskirts of Beirut was struck late on Wednesday, but locals said they believed no-one had been there at the time.
Several people told the BBC on Thursday morning that they had left the building at the beginning of the week and were staying elsewhere because of safety concerns, noting that the area had been targeted in the past. They said they did not know, or would not comment on, what the target may have been.
"We moved away on Monday because of fears that something would happen. Today, we were supposed to come for a shower and to pick up our stuff and we found this," one woman said, as she and her husband looked at the wreckage.
The Israeli military has not commented on the strike.
It did, however, say that it had killed "several Hezbollah terrorists" who were operating in southern Lebanon overnight.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency later reported that the mukhtar, or mayor, of the southern town of Kfour and his wife were killed in an air strike on their home.
It said a Hamas official, Wasim Attallah al-Ali, and his wife were also killed in the Baddawi Palestinian refugee camp near the northern city of Tripoli.
The Israeli military said it targeted Ali because he was a commander of Hamas's military wing and was responsible for training its fighters in Lebanon.
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