Israeli warplanes pound Hezbollah in huge wave of bombing raids as IDF warns Lebanese civilians to move away from targets amid growing fears of wider war in Middle East

Israeli warplanes person pounded nan southbound and eastbound of Lebanon astatine nan aforesaid clip arsenic locals person been warned to move distant from Hezbollah targets, pinch nan region sliding person to all-out war.

Lebanese charismatic media announced that 'enemy warplanes person been launched' early this morning, later adding that astatine slightest 1 civilian had been killed.

Huge plumes of fume person been pictured astatine aggregate sites heavy into nan country, pinch rockets fired astatine areas not antecedently deed by strikes and witnesses reporting aggravated bombing raids.

Lebanon's charismatic National News Agency (NNA) said that group successful nan superior Beirut were receiving Israeli telephone warnings telling them to evacuate.

'Citizens successful Beirut and a number of areas are receiving landline telephone informing messages whose root is nan Israeli enemy, asking them to quickly evacuate wherever they are,' nan NNA said.

The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) said their craft struck 150 targets this morning, amid reports that they were moving to disrupt 'major rocket attacks' connected Israel.

Israel's defence curate Yoav Gallant confirmed that nan IDF was 'deepening' attacks successful Lebanon and suggested that nan business would intensify, informing successful a video message: 'These are days successful which nan Israeli nationalist will person to show composure.'

Gallant further revealed connected X this greeting that he has provided his US counterpart pinch a 'situation appraisal of Hezbollah threats and briefed him connected IDF operations to degrade Hezbollah's expertise to motorboat attacks against Israeli civilians.'

He added that nan wider location information business and 'threats posed by Iran and its proxies' were besides discussed.

The IDF issued a informing to residents of villages successful confederate Lebanon: 'If you are successful aliases adjacent a building that Hezbollah uses to shop weapons aliases weapons, you must evacuate this building and move distant from it immediately. 

'Anyone who is adjacent Hezbollah operatives aliases nan organization's weapons puts themselves successful danger.' 

The NNA reported that location had been 'more than 80 aerial strikes successful half an hour', targeting southbound Lebanon's Nabatiyeh district. It besides reported strikes successful nan Tyre area.

At nan aforesaid time, nan NNA reported 'intense raids successful nan Bekaa' Valley successful nan east, heavy wrong Lebanon adjacent nan Syrian border, including successful nan vicinity of Baalbek and nan outskirts of Hermel.

The NNA said nan strikes successful nan eastbound killed a 'civilian', a shepherd, 'and wounded 2 members of his family' and 4 others.

A Hezbollah source, requesting anonymity, said strikes successful nan Bekaa Valley targeted nan area from eastbound to west.

Israeli subject spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that 'we counsel civilians from Lebanese villages located successful and adjacent to buildings and areas utilized by Hezbollah for subject purposes, specified arsenic those utilized to shop weapons, to instantly move retired of harm's measurement for their ain safety'.

Hagari told a media briefing Israel's subject 'will prosecute successful (more) extended and precise strikes against panic targets which person been embedded wide passim Lebanon'.

Asked by reporters astir a imaginable Israeli crushed incursion into Lebanon, Hagari said 'we will do immoderate is needed' successful bid to return evacuated residents of bluish Israel to their homes safely, a warfare privilege for nan Israeli government.

He said that Hezbollah complete nan years has stashed weapons, including cruise missiles, successful houses and buildings passim confederate Lebanon, and called connected residents to enactment distant from these sites.

He presented successful a media briefing an aerial video of what he described arsenic Hezbollah operatives trying to motorboat cruise missiles from a civilian location successful Lebanon, and nan consequent Israeli onslaught moments earlier it was launched.

'Hezbollah is endangering you. Endangering you and your families,' Hagari said.

Hezbollah has traded adjacent regular cross-border occurrence pinch Israeli forces successful support of Hamas since nan Palestinian militant group's October 7 onslaught triggered nan Gaza war.

Violence has spiked dramatically successful caller days, and Israel and Hezbollah traded dense occurrence complete nan weekend, raising fears of all-out war.

When asked whether a crushed penetration of confederate Lebanon could beryllium imminent, a elder Israeli subject charismatic said that nan IDF is 'currently focusing connected Israel's aerial run only'.

Laying retired Israel's intends successful nan run against Hezbollah, nan charismatic told journalists that it wants to degrade nan militants' expertise to occurrence rockets complete nan separator arsenic it has done for 11 months.

They reportedly added that it hopes to push Hezbollah fighters backmost from nan separator and destruct nan group's infrastructure which nan charismatic said would beryllium utilized to onslaught 'Israeli communities successful nan north, to massacre, murder, and kidnap Israeli civilians'.