Following the Israeli evacuation warning, civil defence teams patrolled the city with loudspeakers, urging residents to leave the area immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The National News Agency (NNA) reported \u201ca series of strikes\u201d on the ancient coastal city, beginning with a raid on a residential apartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An AFP news agency video journalist reported thick smoke covering parts of Tyre, including smoke rising from a building along the seafront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Israeli army had earlier told residents in parts of central Tyre to leave immediately, warning it would attack Hezbollah targets there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cHezbollah\u2019s activities force the [Israeli military] to act against it forcefully\u201d, military spokesman <\/strong>Avichay Adraee said in a post on X, urging residents to \u201chead north\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An accompanying map showed large swathes of the city marked in red, including an area adjacent to a UNESCO World Heritage site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Union of Tyre Municipalities received a phone call in Arabic, apparently from the Israeli military, urging residents to evacuate several streets in the area, a municipal source told AFP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The NNA said the union instructed the civil defence and emergency personnel to use loudspeakers to urge residents to leave, \u201cwhich created a state of panic\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The strikes came after a raid early on Monday in the centre of the city that killed seven people and wounded 17 others, according to a Ministry of Health statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Israel last month escalated air strikes on Hezbollah strongholds. It sent ground forces into Lebanon following a year of cross-border exchanges of fire with the Iran-backed group over the Gaza war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Successive Israeli air strikes have pummeled the southern port city of Tyre in Lebanon following an evacuation warning from the Israeli military for parts of the city, Lebanon\u2019s state-run National News Agency reported. Footage aired by local media and the Lebanese Civil Defence showed thick plumes of smoke rising against the skyline, along with fires […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","tag-israeli"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shot24.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shot24.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shot24.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shot24.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shot24.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shot24.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/shot24.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shot24.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shot24.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shot24.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shot24.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/shot24.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AP24302466825016-1730123479-1024x683.webp\")