A violent Israeli strike targeted a market in the large town of Nabatiyeh on Saturday evening, about ten kilometers from the border with Israel in southern Lebanon, reports the official Lebanese agency ANI. In an initial assessment, the Ministry of Health lists eight injured.
At least four buildings were destroyed, according to French-speaking media L’Orient-Le Jour. Impressive fires broke out after the explosion. Firefighters were still working overnight to put out the fires and clear the rubble, according to the ministry.
The Israeli army recently called on residents of 25 localities, including Nabatiyeh which has several hospitals and regional administrations, to move north, as it stepped up its strikes and began its ground incursions into southern Lebanon.
“Do not return home until further notice”
This morning she had ordered these Lebanese not to return home. “For your own protection, do not return home until further notice. (…) Anyone heading south risks putting their life in danger,” army spokesperson Avichay Adraee wrote in a message in Arabic on X.
The Israeli military said its forces targeted some 280 “terrorist targets” during operations in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip during Yom Kippur, from Friday evening to sunset Saturday. At least 15 people were killed on Saturday in Israeli raids on three villages north and south of Beirut, outside the strongholds of pro-Iranian Hezbollah, reports the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
An “Israeli enemy strike on Maaysra”, a Shiite village in a predominantly Christian mountainous region north of Beirut, left “nine dead and 15 injured”; another on Barja, a Sunni village in the Chouf region south of the capital left “four dead and 18 injured”; and a third left “two dead and four injured” on the north coast, in Deir Billa, 15 kilometers from Batroun, details the ministry.
Lebanese Hezbollah boasted of sending 320 projectiles into the Jewish state. The IDF has “declared closed military zones from 8 p.m. today” (7 p.m. in Paris) and entry is “prohibited”, the regions of Zarit, Shomera, Shtula, Netua and Even Menachem in the north of Israel.
