Israel tells Lebanese to evacuate zone south of Zahrani river

The Israeli military has warned Lebanese civilians living south of the Zahrani river to evacuate the region, warning that it was stepping up operations it insisted were against Hezbollah, according to AFP.

“Residents of southern Lebanon, you must move immediately to north of the Zahrani,” the military’s Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee posted on social media.

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