The Israeli army issues a new call for the evacuation of residents of the Lebanese region of Baalbek
The Israeli army launched this Sunday a new appeal to the population aimed at evacuating certain areas of the Baalbek region, in eastern Lebanon, and warning of attacks against Hezbollah.
“It is located near Hezbollah facilities and interests”reported Arabic-language army spokesman Avichay Adraee in an X message accompanied by target maps. He also called for the evacuation of the town of Douris, near the ancient city that was already the target of a series of attacks on October 30.
On Sunday morning, the Israeli army reported “several projectiles” from Lebanon to the territory of Israel. Some were intercepted and others crashed in the wild, he added.
The army also reported having carried out an operation in several houses in a village in southern Lebanon during the night from Saturday to Sunday, discovering in one of them “numerous weapons hidden in the kitchen and in a child’s bedroom”.
They included in particular “individual rocket launchers, rocket launchers, grenades and AK-47 rifles” as well as “combat equipment and intelligence documents used by Hezbollah fighters who had barricaded themselves in the house”according to a press release.
The army carried out new attacks on Saturday in Lebanon, including one in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, that left one dead, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
The Lebanese Islamist movement, for its part, claimed responsibility for rocket fire on Saturday against several targets in northern Israel and a military base near Tel Aviv.
