Israel has issued new displacement orders for Lebanon’s southern city of Tyre on Monday as it pressed its aerial bombardment and ground assault on Lebanon.
Many of the city’s residents, who Israel ordered to move north, are fleeing towards the suburbs, according to AFP, which added that many people in the city had already been displaced from the south.
The continued displacements in southern Lebanon come amid ongoing mass displacement in northern Gaza, which many leading rights groups, including the Israeli group B’Tselem, have labelled an “ethnic cleansing”.
Head of the UN’s agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) said that in north Gaza “people are just waiting to die”, as they have been cut off from food, water, and medical care, with Israeli forces denying humanitarian access.
Some 400,000 people are believed to be trapped in the north of the enclave, which has been cut off by the Israeli military since it started its campaign earlier in October.
