Almost a quarter of the Lebanese population receives an evacuation order from the Israeli army
According to the Lebanese government, at least 1.2 million people have been forcibly displaced as a result of the war, the vast majority of them since Israel accelerated attacks on the country last month. More than 800 of the approximately 1,000 shelters installed are saturated.
The Lebanese population receives alerts and evacuation calls from the Israeli army almost every day, often in the middle of the night. These warnings, calls to leave their homes. ” immediately “They are usually followed by attacks whose damage exceeds the limits of the alerted areas. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, almost a quarter of the Lebanese population is today affected by a movement order from the Israeli army.
“Calling residents of nearly thirty villages to leave ‘immediately’ is ineffective and illegally suggests that civilians who do not leave an area will be considered combatants.”said Ramzi Kaiss, a researcher at Human Rights Watch in Beirut. Kaiss said Israel – which typically issues its warnings 30 to 90 minutes before airstrikes – must protect civilians who refuse to evacuate or who are physically unable to do so.
Amnesty International also criticized Israeli evacuation orders issued to entire cities and towns. That “raises doubts about the intention to create the conditions for mass displacement “Declared Agnès Callamard, secretary general of the organization, in a statement published on Thursday.
