Israel occupation forces investigating leaflets urging Lebanon evacuation

The Israeli military said on Sunday that it is investigating after a unit dropped unauthorised leaflets on a border area in southern Lebanon urging residents to leave, Reuters has reported.

According to Lebanon’s state-run national news agency, the occupation state dropped leaflets telling residents to leave the Wazzani area. The Israeli military, however, said that dropping the leaflets was an unauthorised action by a unit that had not sought appropriate approval, and that there was no evacuation underway.

Tens of thousands of civilians have already fled villages and towns on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon frontier during months of cross-border strikes. Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement stepped up attacks against Israel last October in solidarity with the Palestinians being attacked by Israel in the Gaza Strip.

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