Israeli officers mentioned Monday that Hezbollah was storing hundreds of long-range rockets in civilian houses, and folks in Lebanon acquired textual content messages and automatic calls warning them to maneuver away from the group’s weapons caches. The claims drew criticism from human rights teams, which mentioned residents would haven’t any cheap technique of understanding how shut they had been to potential army targets.
Israel’s declare and its warnings on Monday drew stark parallels to Gaza, the place for practically a 12 months civilians have been repeatedly displaced because the Israeli army ordered them to maneuver to areas it mentioned can be safer. “Everyone seems to be heading (to Beirut) with their kids and belongings – it is the primary time we see such panic since 2006”, when Hezbollah and Israel final went to warfare, Lebanese journalist Nazir Reda instructed AFP.