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IDF warns central Beirut residents to evacuate area of Hezbollah target, in rare warning outside Dahiyeh
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The IDF issues an evacuation warning for a building in central Beirut, ahead of an airstrike on Hezbollah targets.
“Urgent warning to the residents of Beirut, specifically the Bashoura neighborhood. You are located near a facility belonging to the Hezbollah terror organization, which the IDF will act against,” says army spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee, attaching a map showing the building.
Civilians are instructed to distance themselves at least 300 meters from the site.
The building is located in central Beirut, near St. Joseph University. It is rare for the IDF to strike outside of Beirut’s southern suburbs, a known Hezbollah stronghold.
Earlier, the IDF again reiterated an evacuation warning for the southern suburbs of Beirut, known as the Dahiyeh.
#عاجل ‼️انذار عاجل إلى سكان بيروت وتحديدًا حي الباشورة
⭕️الى كل من يتواجد في المبنى المحدد بالأحمر في الخريطة المرفقة والمباني المجاورة له: أنتم تتواجدون بالقرب من منشأة تابعة لحزب الله الإرهابي والتي سيعمل ضدها جيش الدفاع.
⭕️حرصًا على سلامتكم وسلامة أفراد عائلاتكم عليكم اخلاء… pic.twitter.com/s8Br4mcUOa
— افيخاي ادرعي (@AvichayAdraee) March 12, 2026
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