IDF aircraft dropped leaflets in the Al-Wazzani village in southern Lebanon instructing residents to evacuate the area by 4:00 p.m., Lebanese media reported on Sunday morning.
The leaflets said that due to Hezbollah’s military action in the area, residents of the border village must leave their homes.
“To all residents and displaced persons in the refugee camp area, Hezbollah is firing from your area,” the leaflets state. “You must leave your homes immediately and head north of the area by 4 p.m. Do not return to this area until the end of the war. Anyone present in this area after this hour will be considered a terrorist element and will be eliminated.”
Kan News later reported that senior IDF and government officials were unaware of the distribution of the leaflets, which turned out to be a private initiative of the 769th Territorial Brigade. The move was not coordinated with senior IDF officers. Army Radio reported that the commander of the 769th Brigade made the decision on his own and the distribution of the leaflets was carried out with the Brigade’s drone without the involvement of the Air Force.
The IDF is investigating the unusual event and clarified: “There is no evacuation order for residents in southern Lebanon.”
The reports followed Hezbollah’s latest missile and drone barrage at northern Israel on Sunday morning and heavy barrages on Shabbos and Motzei Shabbos.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Well I never…this is the first time they actually talked straight to the point and told it like it is.
I clapped and applauded when I read it…finally…
….but then I read that the IDF didn’t send it, someone did it on their own initiative.
Huh
@Uncommon_Sense – Israel has been dropping leaflets and placing calls to cell phones throughout the war. This nothing new. What is new is that THIS time it was not the IDF.