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 Israel preparing to strike Hezbollah targets in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley ,

Israel will soon strike Hezbollah targets in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, Israeli military chief spokesperson Daniel Hagari announced Monday, asking residents of villages “inside or near houses where rockets and weapons are stored” to evacuate immediately.  

Israeli strikes in the Beqaa Valley, where Hezbollah has a strong presence, are more infrequent than those in southern Lebanon because of the relative distance of the eastern Lebanese region from Israel’s border. 

The Israeli military is currently using “aerial and intelligence means to locate” weapons being stored by Hezbollah in the Beqaa Valley, Hagari said in a video message.  

“We are preparing to strike terrorist targets in the Beqaa Valley region soon… I urge the Lebanese residents of the villages in the Beqaa Valley who are inside or near houses where rockets and weapons are stored, to move away immediately,” he warned.  

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) also issued a warning to residents in Arabic: “If you are inside or near a house containing Hezbollah weapons, you must leave it and move away from it within two hours, at a distance of no less than 1,000 meters outside the village or go to the central school near you and do not return to it until further notice.” 

Attached to the warning was a map asking residents of the Beqaa Valley towns of Hermel, Aarsal, Baalbek, Yammouneh, Nabi Chit and Kfar Zabad to all evacuate. 

Hagari said that the IDF had hit more than 300 Hezbollah targets on Monday as part of what he described as “extensive, proactive airstrikes.”  

Hagari showed a video of what he said was an Israeli strike carried out earlier on Monday on the Lebanese village of Jabal al-Batam. He said the IDF has been targeting storehouses holding Hezbollah munitions.  

“The sights you are seeing now in south Lebanon, these are explosions of Hezbollah munition that explode inside houses,” he claimed, accusing Hezbollah of storing weapons in civilian buildings.