{"id":281305,"date":"2026-09-07T05:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/281305\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T05:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T05:36:11","slug":"israel-orders-south-lebanon-evacuation-ahead-of-hezbollah-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/281305\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel orders south Lebanon evacuation ahead of Hezbollah strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN, IRAN &#8211; AUGUST 2: A man looks at a banner depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and bearing messages was displayed in front of the Zolfaghar and Zolghadr ballistic missiles exhibited at Azadi Square in Tehran, Iran&#8217;s capital, on August 2, 2026. (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami\/Anadolu via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Anadolu | Anadolu | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s military ordered evacuations in southern Lebanon Monday, ahead of planned strikes on a Hezbollah facility, deepening cracks in a ceasefire that has failed to stop near-daily exchanges of fire.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CaptainElla1\/status\/2096739725763555747?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">In a X post on Monday morning<\/a>, Israeli military spokesperson Ella Waweya called on residents inside a building marked on an accompanying map in Deir al-Zahrani \u2014 and in adjacent structures \u2014 to &#8220;evacuate immediately&#8221; and move at least 300 meters away, saying the site was near a Hezbollah facility the army intended to target and warning that remaining in the area &#8220;puts you in danger.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>At least seven people, including two women, were killed in Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon on Sunday, with six others wounded, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/israeli-military-says-it-strikes-southern-lebanon-after-hezbollah-launched-2026-09-06\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuters reported<\/a>, citing Lebanon&#8217;s Health Ministry. Israel described those strikes as retaliation for Hezbollah drones fired at its forces. <\/p>\n<p>In the Monday post, the Israeli military accused Hezbollah of a &#8220;blatant violation&#8221; of the ceasefire agreement, saying an explosive drone had been launched toward its forces and that this was causing the army &#8220;to act against it forcefully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon was drawn into the wider regional war in March, when the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group formally joined the fighting, prompting Israeli airstrikes and a ground invasion, extending a conflict that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/thousands-lebanese-students-still-displaced-by-war-as-school-year-nears-2026-09-04\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lebanon said has killed at least 4,300 people<\/a> and wounded over 12,000 since March 2. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"InlineVideo-videoThumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/108351344-17871224011787122398-47855908955-1080pnbcnews.jpg\" alt=\"'Trump has misjudged this from the beginning': Former U.S. ambassador on Iran\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Sunday called the strikes &#8220;a dangerous escalation&#8221; that targeted &#8220;purely civilian administrations and health centres.&#8221; The president&#8217;s office also called on the U.S. and the international community to help stop the attacks.  <\/p>\n<p>Violence has persisted in the region despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal reached in June, with sporadic Israeli strikes and Hezbollah drone attacks. Last month was the deadliest since the truce, as Israeli airstrikes killed at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2026\/8\/15\/israeli-strike-kills-seven-in-south-lebanon-as-attacks-intensify\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">least 11 people and wounded 19<\/a> in southern Lebanon. <\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s evacuation warning was only the third issued since the June ceasefire announcement, after the first online evacuation order on Aug. 5 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/israeli-military-says-it-strikes-southern-lebanon-after-hezbollah-launched-2026-09-06\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the second on Sunday<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEHRAN, IRAN &#8211; AUGUST 2: A man looks at a banner depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and bearing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[73608,124,135,648,159,1770,34,37,93,81,51],"class_list":["post-281305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-lco27g","tag-breaking-news-politics","tag-business-news","tag-defense","tag-foreign-policy","tag-government-and-politics","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-politics","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117228141801907720","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}