The Israeli military has sent troops from four divisions across the border into Lebanon, but has not publicly disclosed how many.

An Israeli air strike targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut early on Tuesday as the country prepared to expand its military campaign against Hizbollah. The Israel Defense Forces issued evacuation orders to more than two dozen villages in Lebanon’s south-west and “urgent warnings” in Arabic to beachgoers and boats along the Lebanese coast up to the Awali river,