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Israel on Saturday called on the inhabitants of several areas of Tyre in southern Lebanon to evacuate north of the Zahrani River. Shortly before, a hospital in the coastal city had been damaged by two Israeli air strikes at nearby buildings, according to local sources.

On Saturday, American-Israeli strikes targeted the area of the Iranian nuclear power plant in Bouchr, in southern Iran. According to the official Irna agency, a security officer was killed, while no damage was recorded on the facilities. The incident revives tensions around Iran's regional nuclear issue.

Map of Lebanon: analysis of the OCHA snapshot showing the spread of conflict, displacement and humanitarian pressure.

In southern Lebanon, the destruction of cemeteries feeds the fear of territorial and identity erasure beyond military logic.

Lebanon: The point at 10 a.m. over the last 24 hours, between strikes in Beirut, tensions in the South, targeted roads and internally displaced persons crisis.

The American embassy in Beirut warns about a possible Iranian threat against Lebanese universities and calls on its nationals to leave the country.

The municipality of Ain Ebel denies any evacuation order and claims that no departure from the village was requested.

Lebanon: 1,368 dead and 4,138 wounded on 3 April, in the face of strikes in Bekaa, the southern suburbs, the south and another attack on UNIFIL.

Since the end of March, Israeli leaders have been talking no more about repelling Hezbollah. They describe a project to control southern Lebanon up to Litani, with the destruction of border villages, the ban on return for hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and, among some officials, the assumption of speeches on a new Israeli border. Compared to 1978 and 1982, this strategy marks a break: once supported by the ALS and a local facade, the occupation envisaged today appears more direct, more territorial and closer to a logic of annexation.

Three UNIFIL peacekeepers were injured in an explosion in southern Lebanon a few days after the death of three peacekeepers.

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Israel announced its intention to hit the bridges of Sohmor and Machghara, in the West Bekaa, to cut Hezbollah's movements southward. This warning marks an extension of the bridge war in eastern Lebanon and places the Zahrani as a new line of withdrawal imposed on civilians.

Near Bouthr, an American pilot is presented as missing after new Iranian claims about the loss of an aircraft. But neither the exact aircraft type nor the pilot's fate are confirmed by Washington. Between disputed images, partial narratives and informational warfare, uncertainty remains at this hour.

Katz assumes in Lebanon the method applied in Gaza: razed villages, mass evacuations, non-return of displaced persons and control to Litani.