Smoke billows over Beirut.
Credit: Reuters Photo
A building in southern Beirut was struck on Sunday, Reuters live footage showed, almost an hour after the Israeli army issued an evacuation order to residents of the area.
The Israeli army had issued an evacuation order on Sunday for residents of a southern Beirut neighborhood, the first such warning in almost a month, in anticipation of a possible strike on what it says are Hezbollah targets - further testing a fragile ceasefire.
The Israeli army's spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, said on X that residents should evacuate several buildings in the Hadath neighborhood and move "at least 300 meters away".
Residents reported hearing gunfire across the area, which they said they believed was intended to warn people to leave, as well as seeing a massive traffic jam on roads leading from the area.
"To everyone located in the building marked in red on the attached map, and the surrounding buildings: you are near facilities belonging to Hezbollah," Adraee wrote in a post that included a map of the potential targets.