Why is Israel focusing on Lebanon's southern city of Nabatieh?
Israel has issued forced displacement orders for the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh. Al Jazeera examines why the major regional hub has become a focus of its operations, in an area where Israel says it is targeting Hezbollah infrastructure.
Israel has issued forced displacement orders for the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh, prompting questions about why the major regional hub has become a focus of its operations, Al Jazeera reports. The city sits in a part of southern Lebanon where Israel says it is targeting Hezbollah infrastructure.
Nabatieh is one of the largest urban centres in the south, a commercial and administrative anchor for surrounding towns, which makes any sustained military pressure there especially disruptive for civilians. Lebanese officials and residents have described the displacement orders as deepening an already difficult humanitarian situation.
Israel frames its actions as aimed at armed groups, a position Al Jazeera relays alongside accounts from the ground that are often difficult to verify independently. Aid agencies will watch how many people are displaced and whether access for humanitarian relief holds in the days ahead.
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