Israel has announced they are further expanding their evacuation orders in Lebanon today, introducing new boundaries to order civilians out of dozens of other towns that previously were not impacted in the order.
The southern evacuation order was previously ordering civilians out of the area south of the Litani River, but Israel today revised that to the Zahrani River, which runs north of the Litani and enters the Mediterranean Sea near Sidon.
Since Israel launched this war on March 2, they have killed 687 people and have displaced some 780,000 civilians from their homes. The new evacuation orders will only increase the number displaced, but the goal may be freeing up territory, not just chasing the populace around.
Smoke rises after an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, following an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, Lebanon, March 10, 2026. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
Defense Minister Israel Katz demanded that the Lebanese government stop Hezbollah from further resistance to the invasion, warning that if they failed to do so Israel would seize the territory directly and “do it ourselves.”
Civilians are bearing the large brunt of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, with the ever-growing number of displaced waiting for the resolution of the latest invasion so they can get back to trying to rebuild, knowing that they’ll be facing Israeli resistance to post-war reconstruction every step of the way.
In addition to the evacuation orders in the south, Israeli strikes targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut, and also attack Lebanese University, killing the director of the faculty of sciences Hussein Bazzi.
Israeli Army Chief Eyal Zamir says that the war in Lebanon “will not be short” and that Israel considers the war there “an additional main front” of their ongoing war. 17 people have been reported killed and 35 others wounded so far in Israeli attacks today.
