Less than two hours after the evacuation orders issued by the Israeli army on Monday 1isIn June, residents of the southern suburbs of Beirut left the south of the Lebanese capital en masse. On the images shared on YouTube by the English version of the Saudi media Al-Arabiya, A stream of cars and two-wheelers can be seen taking to the road to flee areas designated by the IDF. Lebanese police and soldiers try to give a semblance of order to the evacuations.
“Many people are fleeing Dahieh, south of Beirut, blocking the roads leading out of this suburb, where Hezbollah enjoys broad support… décrit de son côté Al-Jazeera.
There is great confusion in the streets. “There are not many places left to take refuge, because the reception centers run by the public authorities are already full. A lot of people will stay in their cars, to see what will happen… continues the journalist of the Qatari site from the south of the city.
Military climbing
In the middle of the afternoon, the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his Defense Minister, Israel Katz, announced, in a joint statement, that they had “ordonné à l’armée israélienne de frapper†what they described as “Hezbollah terrorist targets in the southern suburbs of Beirut†, stronghold of the Shiite armed group in the Lebanese capital.
Two days after retaking the symbolic Beaufort Castle, in southern Lebanon, the Israeli army seems determined, in its war against Hezbollah, to increase pressure on the country of Cedar. IDF called on residents of southern Beirut suburbs to evacuate “to preserve their safety†. “If Hezbollah continues to fire missile projectiles toward Israeli cities and towns, the Israeli army will respond by targeting targets in the southern suburbs,†she added, quoted in the Lebanese daily The Orient-The Day.
An escalation which pushed France to request an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, which is to be held on Monday in New York. “I asked [cette réunion] because if we recognize the right of Israel, as of all countries, to self-defense, to defend itself against Hezbollah attacks […]nothing can justify the prolongation of Israeli military operations in Lebanon and its occupation deeper and deeper into Lebanese territory… declared Sunday, May 31, the French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot.
