{"id":1539,"date":"2026-03-03T12:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/?p=1539"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:22:07","slug":"israel-wages-war-on-two-fronts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/israel-wages-war-on-two-fronts\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel wages war on two fronts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260302-40711466-40711455-MASS_DISPLACEMENT_IN_LEBANON_FOLLOWING_ISRAELI_AIRSTRIKES-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260302-40711466-40711455-MASS_DISPLACEMENT_IN_LEBANON_FOLLOWING_ISRAELI_AIRSTRIKES-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260302-40711466-40711455-MASS_DISPLACEMENT_IN_LEBANON_FOLLOWING_ISRAELI_AIRSTRIKES-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260302-40711466-40711455-MASS_DISPLACEMENT_IN_LEBANON_FOLLOWING_ISRAELI_AIRSTRIKES-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260302-40711466-40711455-MASS_DISPLACEMENT_IN_LEBANON_FOLLOWING_ISRAELI_AIRSTRIKES-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260302-40711466-40711455-MASS_DISPLACEMENT_IN_LEBANON_FOLLOWING_ISRAELI_AIRSTRIKES-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260302-40711466-40711455-MASS_DISPLACEMENT_IN_LEBANON_FOLLOWING_ISRAELI_AIRSTRIKES-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260302-40711466-40711455-MASS_DISPLACEMENT_IN_LEBANON_FOLLOWING_ISRAELI_AIRSTRIKES-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260302-40711466-40711455-MASS_DISPLACEMENT_IN_LEBANON_FOLLOWING_ISRAELI_AIRSTRIKES-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260302-40711466-40711455-MASS_DISPLACEMENT_IN_LEBANON_FOLLOWING_ISRAELI_AIRSTRIKES-1068x712.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AA-20260302-40711466-40711455-MASS_DISPLACEMENT_IN_LEBANON_FOLLOWING_ISRAELI_AIRSTRIKES-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Thousands of Lebanese civilians flee their homes in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa Valley on March 2, 2026, following Israeli military strike threats and subsequent heavy aerial bombardments. Displaced residents moved toward the capital, Beirut, and safer northern regions as the intensity of the air raids increased throughout the day. -AA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Warmongering Israel on Tuesday bombed Tehran and Beirut simultaneously. The Israeli military confirmed its troops \u201care operating in southern Lebanon\u201d while engaged in another front following its joint attack with the United States on Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier, Lebanon\u2019s state-run National News Agency confirmed the Lebanese army was evacuating \u201cadvanced positions\u201d along the border with Israel, with the Reuters news agency reporting it has withdrawn from at \u2060least seven \u2060forward operating positions along the \u200cborder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A senior Hezbollah official in Lebanon said the recent Israeli attacks had left the group with \u201cno option but to return to resistance\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel wanted open war, \u201cso let it be an open war\u201d, said Mahmoud Qmati on Tuesday, adding that \u201cthe era of patience has ended.\u201d The moves come as Israel\u2019s Defense Minister Israel Katz said Israel\u2019s army had been instructed \u201cto advance and seize additional controlling areas in Lebanon to prevent firing on Israeli border areas. \u201cWe have positioned soldiers on the border area in additional points to defend our civilians, to prevent Hezbollah from attacking them,\u201d military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel has also bombed Lebanon\u2019s capital Beirut for a second day as Hezbollah claimed responsibility for an attack on an airbase in northern Israel. New Israeli air raids on Tuesday hit the Haret Hreik area of Beirut\u2019s southern suburbs of Dahiyeh after at least two more attacks on the city\u2019s outskirts. The Israeli military also issued forced displacement notices for some 59 areas in Lebanon, including several neighbourhoods in Dahiyeh, traditionally home to more of the Shia population, seen as a support base for Hezbollah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2757\ufe0f Israeli army reportedly carrying out air strikes on southern suburbs of Beirut <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ijq8hQh94y\">https:\/\/t.co\/Ijq8hQh94y<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OYgmej29fw\">pic.twitter.com\/OYgmej29fw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Sputnik Africa (@sputnik_africa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sputnik_africa\/status\/2028798754590019824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Civilians across Lebanon are continually caught in the crosshairs of Israeli attacks in Lebanon and have suffered thousands of deaths and mass displacement during the yearlong war in 2023-24, and in subsequent near-daily Israeli violations of a ceasefire up until the eruption of this new conflict days ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At \u2060least \u206030,000 displaced people have sought protection in \u2060shelters in Lebanon since hostilities between \u2060Israel and Hezbollah began on Monday, says the UNHCR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMany more slept in their cars on \u2060the side of \u2060roads or were still \u2060stuck in traffic jams on the roads.\u201d A UNHCR spokesperson \u2060told Al Jazeera the Israeli attacks resulted in \u201ca wave of displacement \u2026 We\u2019ve seen civilians making their way out of there from the second these strikes began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis morning, schoolchildren are not heading to schools in Beirut because many of them are closed in order to take in the thousands and thousands of people who have been displaced from the southern suburbs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Monday, Israeli strikes on Beirut\u2019s suburbs and southern Lebanon killed at least 52 people and injured 154, according to state-run media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Lebanon\u2019s President Michel Aoun has confirmed the ban on Hezbollah\u2019s military activity.He said the government\u2019s move to immediately ban Hezbollah\u2019s military activity was \u201cfinal\u201d, and declared there was \u201cno turning back\u201d from the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warmongering Israel on Tuesday bombed Tehran and Beirut simultaneously. The Israeli military confirmed its troops \u201care operating in southern Lebanon\u201d while engaged in another front following its joint attack with the United States on Iran. Earlier, Lebanon\u2019s state-run National News Agency confirmed the Lebanese army was evacuating \u201cadvanced positions\u201d along the border with Israel, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140,205],"tags":[230,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-1539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-must-reads","8":"category-secondary-story","9":"tag-beirut","10":"tag-israel"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1551,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539\/revisions\/1551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newsnetwork.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}