Israel strikes south Lebanon’s Tyre after issuing evacuation warnings

Israel’s military renewed its strikes on the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on Saturday (April 4, 2026) after issuing evacuation warnings, following attacks on nearby buildings that damaged a hospital in the city.

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Israel has carried out strikes across Lebanon and launched a ground invasion in the south after Hezbollah entered the war in West Asia on the side of its backer Iran on March 2.

The Israeli army struck three buildings it had warned people to evacuate, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA).

A missile hit an 11-storey building northeast of Tyre, completely destroying it and reducing it to a pile of rubble that covered a nearby gas station, a witness said.

A second raid on a five-storey building near the city levelled half of it, leaving the other half standing.

The third strike was on the Burj al-Shamali Palestinian refugee camp, southeast of the city.

Tens of thousands of people have left Tyre, but around 20,000 remain, including 15,000 displaced from surrounding villages, despite Israeli evacuation warnings covering most of the city and a broad swathe of the south.

Bridge destroyed

Saturday’s Israeli warning followed strikes that wounded at least 11 people, including three civil defence members, and damaged a major hospital, the Health Ministry in Beirut said.

A wave of attacks hit the Tyre area on Saturday (April 4, 2026), including one on its port that struck a small boat and damaged others moored nearby, the correspondent said.

Dawn strikes also targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut, a largely evacuated Hezbollah stronghold that has faced repeated attacks during more than a month of war.

After attacking a bridge in the West Bekaa region in eastern Lebanon on Friday (April 3, 2026) “to prevent the transfer of reinforcements and military equipment”, Israel hit it again on Saturday (April 4, 2026), destroying it completely, the NNA said.