{"id":47214,"date":"2026-05-06T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=47214"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T08:29:00","slug":"israel-military-issues-evacuation-warning-for-dozen-villages-in-south-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/israel-military-issues-evacuation-warning-for-dozen-villages-in-south-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel military issues evacuation warning for dozen villages in south Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Israel&#8217;s military on Wednesday issued a new evacuation warning for a dozen villages in south Lebanon ahead of expected strikes, despite a truce with Lebanon intended to halt fighting with Iran-backed Hezbollah.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For your safety, you must evacuate your homes immediately and move away from the villages and towns by at least 1,000 metres into open areas,&#8221; the military&#8217;s Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee posted on X, listing 12 villages.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the ceasefire agreement, Israeli forces and Hezbollah have traded fire daily, mostly in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has also announced a &#8220;yellow line&#8221; extending up to 10 kilometres (six miles) inside southern Lebanon, inside which it has stationed troops and barred residents from returning.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the villages included in Wednesday&#8217;s evacuation warning are north of the Litani River, outside the area occupied by Israeli soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate statement on Wednesday, the military said its air force hit several structures the previous day that were used by Hezbollah for military purposes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The structures were struck while Hezbollah terrorists were operating inside, advancing and carrying out terror attacks against IDF soldiers and the state of Israel,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During the strikes, several terrorists were eliminated.&#8221;\u00a0Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war in early March, after Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a US-Israeli military campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Israel responded with massive airstrikes across Lebanon and a ground invasion in the south.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Israeli strikes in Lebanon have killed more than 2,700 people, including dozens since the April 17 ceasefire brokered by Washington between Israeli and Lebanese representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli military says it has also lost 17 soldiers and a civilian contractor in the fighting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel&#8217;s military on Wednesday issued a new evacuation warning for a dozen villages in south Lebanon ahead of expected strikes, despite a truce with Lebanon intended to halt fighting with Iran-backed Hezbollah. &#8220;For your safety, you must evacuate your homes immediately and move away from the villages and towns by at least 1,000 metres into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47216,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47214\/revisions\/47216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}