Eight killed, 32 wounded in violent Israeli strikes on Tyre

An Israeli airstrike on the southern city of Tyre before an Israeli military warning on Tuesday killed at least eight people and wounded 32 others.

The state-run National News Agency (NNA) had reported the strike not long before Israel's military issued an evacuation warning for the entire city and surrounding areas ahead of strikes there.

The Israeli army ordered Tuesday residents of the historic city of Tyre and its suburbs, including the city's Christian neighborhood, to evacuate ahead of more strikes.

"Urgent warning to the residents of the city of Tyre, including the Christian quarter, and the camps and surrounding neighborhoods," read a message posted on X by the Israeli military's Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee.

"For your safety, we ask you to immediately evacuate your homes... and move north of the Zahrani River."

The Christian quarter has so far been spared in the destructive airstrikes on the port city.

Israeli strikes and shelling also targeted Tuesday several towns and villages in south Lebanon including Kawthariyet al-Rez, Baraashit, al-Mansouri, Shaitiyeh, Insarieh, al-Khardali, Srifa, Harees, Burj Qalaway, and Msayleh.

Hezbollah, for its part, said it targeted with salvos of rockets Israeli troops who were trying to advance from the southern border town of al-Bayyada toward the village of Bouyout al-Siyyad. The group later targeted troops in Zawtar al-Sharqiya.

Israeli troops were advancing Tuesday from Khiam toward Debbine, media reports said, after they withdrew from the village last week.