Lebanese start fleeing south Beirut after Israel says will target the area

Key Takeaways

• The proposal aims to create a conducive environment for a gradual de-escalation and a cessation of all hostilities, the official says.
• Large numbers of people are fleeing Dahiyeh in the south of the Lebanese capital Beirut, jamming roads leading out of the suburb, where Hezbollah enjoys wide support, after Israel’s government ordered strikes on the area.
• The Israeli military has been given orders by the government to attack the southern suburbs on Monday, a day after the army reached its deepest point in Lebanon in more than quarter of a century.
• Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr, reporting from southern Beirut, said many people in started packing their belongings immediately after the attack orders were announced by the Israeli government on Monday morning.
• “At approximately 7:00 GMT, the Israeli prime minister and the Israeli defence minister issued a joint statement, saying that they ordered the Israeli army to target Beirut’s southern suburbs, and immediately after that people started packing whatever they could, and make their way out of these neghbourhoods,” she said.