Hezbollah taunts Israel with own evacuation order

The Hezbollah terror group has issued a warning in Hebrew ordering residents of Israeli towns near the Israeli border to evacuate, in what appears to be a sardonic rejoinder to Israel’s own warnings to Lebanese civilians ahead of airstrikes.

“Warning to residents of northern settlements, you are ordered to evacuate all settlements located within five kilometers of the border,” the terror group says in a statement, accompanied by a map showing the area where residents should head south from.

Hezbollah issues an evacuation warning to residents of the northern Israeli communities located within 5 km of the border line. pic.twitter.com/VmnowMAYEj

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“Your military’s aggression against Lebanese sovereignty and safe citizens [sic], the destruction of civilian infrastructure and the expulsion campaign it is carrying out will not go unchallenged,” it adds.

The statement comes hours after Israel warned residents to leave Beirut’s southern suburbs for the first time, prompting an exodus from the area known as Dahiyeh, ahead of a series of bombings on the Hezbollah stronghold. Israel says its warnings are meant to protect civilians from harm.

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Though warnings typically precede attacks, Hezbollah’s follows several days of rocket and drone fire on Israel, including a series of apparent overnight attacks on towns near the border.

Israel has said it is not evacuating northern towns and instead has launched a ground and air offensive aimed at pushing Hezbollah away from the border.

The terror group in subsequent statements claims several attacks on troops in Israel and inside Lebanon, including in response to the Dahiyeh campaign.