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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Israel orders more evacuations in Lebanon and threatens medics who treat Hezbollah members

Lebanese ambulances and firefighters in the street outside an apartment building, out of which black smoke is billowing
Lebanese ambulances and firefighters at the scene of an Israeli airstrike that targeted an apartment building in south Beirut’s Jnah neighbourhood on 1 October. Photograph: Ibrahim Amro/AFP/Getty Images

Israel has ordered more evacuations in southern Lebanon and threatened to target ambulances, as a fifth UN peacekeeper was wounded in Israel’s escalating conflict with the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah.

Israel’s military on Saturday ordered people in 23 southern Lebanese villages to evacuate to areas north of the Awali River, which flows from the western Bekaa valley into the Mediterranean.

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