Race to escape Beirut: Thousands flee after Netanyahu orders IDF to strike targets in the city

Thousands of civilians are racing to flee Beirut after Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the IDF to strike Lebanon’s capital city.

Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz said they had ordered strikes on the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs, a densely populated area where Hezbollah holds sway.

‘In light of the repeated violations of the ceasefire in Lebanon by the terrorist organisation Hezbollah and the attacks on our cities and citizens, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz have instructed the IDF to strike terror targets in the Dahiyeh district of Beirut,’ a joint statement said.

Following the announcement, a wave of

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