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Israel sending phone warnings to evacuate: Lebanese official media

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Smoke billows over southern Lebanon following Israeli strikes, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hizbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Tyre, southern Lebanon

Lebanese official media said Monday people were receiving Israeli phone warnings telling them to evacuate, and Information Minister Ziad Makary’s office told AFP it had received one of the messages.

The reports came after the Israeli military told people in Lebanon to move away from Hezbollah targets and vowed to carry out more “extensive and precise” strikes against the Iran-backed group.

It was the Israeli military’s first official warning issued to Lebanese people since the war in Gaza erupted nearly a year ago.

Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) said that “citizens in Beirut and a number of areas are receiving landline telephone warning messages whose source is the Israeli enemy, asking them to quickly evacuate where they are”.

It called the phone warnings “part of the psychological war that the enemy has adopted”.

Minister Makary’s office, located in Beirut near several other ministries, said it received a landline call and when staff responded, a “recorded message” told them to evacuate the building in order to avoid strikes.

Others in Lebanon reported receiving mobile phone text messages with similar warnings from a sender whose number was not displayed.

Beirut resident Khaled, who asked to be identified only by his first name, said he “received a text message that said: “If you are in a building where there are Hezbollah weapons, distance yourself from the village until further notice.”

Imad Kreidieh, head of state telecommunications provider Ogero, said “the landline network system in Lebanon blocks all communications from Israel”.

But Israel “circumvents the communications systems by using the international phone code of a friendly country”, he told AFP.

Israel and Lebanon are technically at war, and Lebanon forbids communications with Israel.

AFP/ France24

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    Mirza

    I request Hizbollah and all other resistance forces to immediately attack on all across the Israel with powerful and lethal weapons to put them in defensive position and to put their lives in danger. Never wait, no more delay , the more delay means the more destruction of Lebanon and death of Lebanese people. So make a coordinated one biggest attack on Israel , destroy bin gorian airport, destroy demona, hit them with missiles and destroy the whole Israel and when they come out of rat holes to look after their damages and managing casualties and injures people then enter your fighters to hit and kill them. No more mercy, no more wait , no more care . Just collectively hit Israel with thousands of missiles , drones and attack them and never leave spare any city, any village any premises but to destroy them. Also hit their shelters, hospitals, water dams, power stations, ammunition depots, airports, bridges, and save some Burkan missiles for Israeli ground forces when they try to enter roast them with Burkan missiles.

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