Israel orders evacuation of Lebanese city as conflict with Hezbollah escalates

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, after carrying out another wave of air strikes that it said targeted the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah.

The military told residents of Tyre and surrounding areas that it was "compelled to act forcefully" because Hezbollah was violating a US-brokered ceasefire that began five weeks ago.

Also on Wednesday, Lebanese media reported Israeli strikes across the south and eastern Bekaa Valley, with three people killed in the town of Choukine.
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The escalation threatens to derail talks aimed at ending the war between the US, Israel and Iran. Iran insists that any deal must also cover Lebanon, but Israel says it reserves the right to continue to fight the threat from Hezbollah.

Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3pgrpmlklo

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IDF Orders Evacuation of Tyre, Largest City in Lebanon After Beirut
The city is home to 174,000 people, with about 200,000 residents including those in adjacent refugee camps. All throughout Tuesday and into Wednesday, Hezbollah attack drones struck Israel's northern border

[GCG]

1. Wow!!!

More territory for Greater Israel!

The Lebanese military should just take off their uniforms and give their equipment to the Israelis...

At this rate Lebanon will cease to exist as a country and the Lebanese people will have Beirut as a New Gaza!

But I guess that Lebanon doesn't have the right to exist...right?

[Hieronymus Phact]

3. Maybe they could try making Peace

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Not a single bomb has fallen on Egypt or Jordan, they used to be deadly enemies now they have Peace.

[AloeVera]

5. Oh, was Lebanon at war with Israel? When was that declared by Lebanon exactly?

Come to think of it, did Israel declare war on Lebanon?

A priviledged rogue state given historical impunity need not pay attention to the niceties of international and humanitarian law, it seems. It just does what it wants to expand its territory.

Some people still claim making "peace" is what that rogue state wants and I find that troubling for many reasons.

[EX500rider]

6. " Oh, was Lebanon at war with Israel?"

Since the current conflict began, Hezbollah has launched thousands of rockets, drones, and missiles into Israel. During the initial phase of the war (from October 2023 through late 2024), the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported that Hezbollah fired roughly 12,400 projectiles across the northern border.
If Lebanon can't control their "militias", Israel will have to.

[AloeVera]

7. Uh huh.

Since Israel invaded Lebanon and occupied a third of it in a well-practiced ethnic cleansing spree, Hezbollah is defending Lebanon's sovereign territory and its people from the fate of Palestinians.

Silly me, I forgot that self-defense is only for Israel!!


/s

[EX500rider]

11. And which came 1st, the invasion or the 1,000's of missiles fired into Israel?

[Eko]

10. I looks like Israel cant control their "militias" and are even killing American citizens.

Can we invade them for that?
Two Palestinians killed by gunfire and another apparently died from tear gas inhalation in a combined settler and soldier attack on the village of Khirbet Abu Falah
https://www.btselem.org/settler_violence/20260512_two_palestinians_killed_by_gunfire_and_another_apparently_died_from_tear_gas_inhalation_in_a_combined_settler_and_soldier_attack_in_khirbet_abu_falah

[Hieronymus Phact]

8. Yes, they are in a de facto state of war. Peace is better, ask the Egyptians.

[AloeVera]

9. Not sure if it's that you missed my point or...

That you don't want to address it. Either way, so be it.

I'm all for peace. Pro-peace is one reason I am not pro-Israel. Justice, fairness, equality and human rights are some of the other reasons.

[Dawson Leery]

2. The Imperial Greater Israel Project is underway.

[Prairie Gates]

4. Israel has no right to order anything in the sovereign nation of Lebanon

The UN is useless.