Israel orders evacuation of Lebanese city as conflict with Hezbollah escalates
Source: BBC
The Israeli military has ordered the evacuation of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, after carrying out another wave of air strikes that it said targeted the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah.
The military told residents of Tyre and surrounding areas that it was "compelled to act forcefully" because Hezbollah was violating a US-brokered ceasefire that began five weeks ago.
Also on Wednesday, Lebanese media reported Israeli strikes across the south and eastern Bekaa Valley, with three people killed in the town of Choukine.
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The escalation threatens to derail talks aimed at ending the war between the US, Israel and Iran. Iran insists that any deal must also cover Lebanon, but Israel says it reserves the right to continue to fight the threat from Hezbollah.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3pgrpmlklo
IDF Orders Evacuation of Tyre, Largest City in Lebanon After Beirut
The city is home to 174,000 people, with about 200,000 residents including those in adjacent refugee camps. All throughout Tuesday and into Wednesday, Hezbollah attack drones struck Israel's northern border
GCG
(125 posts)More territory for Greater Israel!
The Lebanese military should just take off their uniforms and give their equipment to the Israelis...
At this rate Lebanon will cease to exist as a country and the Lebanese people will have Beirut as a New Gaza!
But I guess that Lebanon doesn't have the right to exist...right?
Hieronymus Phact
(759 posts)Last edited Wed May 27, 2026, 02:45 PM - Edit history (1)
Not a single bomb has fallen on Egypt or Jordan, they used to be deadly enemies now they have Peace.
AloeVera
(4,438 posts)Come to think of it, did Israel declare war on Lebanon?
A priviledged rogue state given historical impunity need not pay attention to the niceties of international and humanitarian law, it seems. It just does what it wants to expand its territory.
Some people still claim making "peace" is what that rogue state wants and I find that troubling for many reasons.
EX500rider
(12,786 posts)If Lebanon can't control their "militias", Israel will have to.
AloeVera
(4,438 posts)Since Israel invaded Lebanon and occupied a third of it in a well-practiced ethnic cleansing spree, Hezbollah is defending Lebanon's sovereign territory and its people from the fate of Palestinians.
Silly me, I forgot that self-defense is only for Israel!!
/s
EX500rider
(12,786 posts)AloeVera
(4,438 posts)There was supposed to be a ceasefire. Israel violated it hundreds of times.
After the November 2024 "ceasefire" - and before the Iran war - Israel started demolishing the Lebanese border villages and bombing south Lebanon over 400 times, killing around 500 people and causing immense damage to homes and infrastructure. In a further violation of the ceasefire, Israel did not withdraw from south Lebanon.
During these 15 months of Israel's near-daily violation of the ceasefire and refusal to withdraw, Hezbollah did not launch even one rocket or projectile into Israel.
Per INIFIL (?) the UN peacekeeping group for Lebanon, Hezbollah launched "several" rockets into Israel on March 2, 2026 in retaliation for the killing of Iran's ayatollah. No one was killed. Israel immediately started bombing Lebanon with ferocity, killing 31 people and wounding 149 on the very first day and eventually invading up to the Litani and now beyond - to date killing 3,213 people and forcibly displacing 1.2 million, a third of the Lebanese population. It has also occupied about a third (?) of Lebanon. If you think it is ever going to let those people back into their homes, you might want to refresh on what happened to Palestinians in 1948 and after.
Israel is now destroying the ancient city of Tyre, a cradle of human civilization long before Abraham, Jesus or Mohammed ever set foot in the "Holy Land".
I am utterly sick and tired of watching Israel and its ever-faithful supporters go on about Israel's "right to exist" and "security" and "self-defense" while denying the same rights to its neighbours and the Palestinians and raining death and destruction - terrorism - on them using any pretext to expand its territory.
I am making it a point to limit my engagement with anyone still defending or making excuses for Israel, like I do with Trump supporters. Both are bad for my health and both are futile.
Peace.
Eko
(10,131 posts)Can we invade them for that?
Two Palestinians killed by gunfire and another apparently died from tear gas inhalation in a combined settler and soldier attack on the village of Khirbet Abu Falah
https://www.btselem.org/settler_violence/20260512_two_palestinians_killed_by_gunfire_and_another_apparently_died_from_tear_gas_inhalation_in_a_combined_settler_and_soldier_attack_in_khirbet_abu_falah
Hieronymus Phact
(759 posts)AloeVera
(4,438 posts)That you don't want to address it. Either way, so be it.
I'm all for peace. Pro-peace is one reason I am not pro-Israel. Justice, fairness, equality and human rights are some of the other reasons.
Dawson Leery
(19,586 posts)Prairie Gates
(8,491 posts)The UN is useless.