INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Israel unleashed its most widespread wave of airstrikes against hundreds of Hezbollah targets on Monday, killing at least 100 people by
Lebanese tallies, and warned citizens to evacuate areas where it said the armed group was storing weapons.Israel deepened its attacks after
some of the heaviest cross-border exchanges of fire in almost a year of conflict, as Israel shifts its focus to its northern border, where
Hezbollah said it had launched rockets at Israeli military posts.The airstrikes have intensified pressure on Hezbollah, which last week
walkie-talkies used by its members exploded.The operation was widely blamed on Israel, which has not confirmed or denied responsibility.In
according to the Lebanese health ministry.Hezbollah said 16 members of the group were among the dead, including senior leader Ibrahim Aqil
and another commander, Ahmed Wahbi.One person was slightly hurt by shrapnel from the latest rocket barrage at northern Israel, according to
the Israeli ambulance service.Imad Kreidieh, the head of Lebanese telecoms company Ogero, told Reuters on Monday that more than 80,000
automated calls asking people to evacuate their areas were detected on the network
received calls from a Lebanese number ordering them to immediately distance themselves 1,000 metres (0.6 mile) from any post used by
his ministry had received a call ordering the building to evacuate, but said the ministry would do no such thing
operation, Israel will respond and destroy more than this
their homes safely, a war priority for the Israeli government.Hagari presented in a media briefing an aerial video of what he described as
Hezbollah operatives trying to launch cruise missiles from a civilian house in Lebanon, and the subsequent Israeli strike moments before it
mountainside east of the Lebanese port city of Byblos on Monday, a resident and Lebanese state media said, in an area that has not
previously been hit by airstrikes
over southern Lebanon and hear a series of airstrikes nearby.Warplanes also carried out airstrikes on the Hermel area in northern Lebanon,
