From PM’s office: IDF ordered not to let Lebanese enter ‘area of the villages near the border’
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz have instructed the IDF to “not allow the [Lebanese] population to enter the area of the villages near the border in southern Lebanon,” the Prime Minister’s Office says.
“This is in accordance with the first stage in the implementation of the ceasefire outline,” the PMO adds.
Netanyahu’s office also says that four Lebanese suspects detained by IDF troops in southern Lebanon earlier today are Hezbollah operatives, including a local commander.
The statement makes no mention of the Litani River, which the IDF had minutes earlier warned Lebanese civilians against crossing.
