Israel’s military pounded Hezbollah targets in south and east Lebanon Monday and said more strikes were coming, warning Lebanese to stay out of harm’s way despite international calls for restraint.
After nearly a year of tit-for-tat cross-border fire between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, the strikes since the weekend are the most intense since the outbreak of war between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip last October 7.Israel said more than 300 Hezbollah sites had been targeted on Monday in dozens of strikes.
.Israel military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari made a first-of-its-kind appeal to people in Lebanon, telling them to avoid potential targets linked to Hezbollah as strikes would “go on for the near future”.
Hagari said Israel’s military “will engage in (more) extensive and precise strikes against terror targets which have been embedded...
