Israel bombards Lebanon as Netanyahu calls drone attack against his home ‘a grave mistake’ [Video]

TWO ISRAEL AIRSTRIKES targeted south Beirut today after the Israeli army warned civilians to evacuate the are where Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement is based, state media said.

The reported strikes came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement of trying to assassinate him by attacking his residence.

“Enemy airplanes carried out two strikes this morning on Beirut’s southern suburbs, one of them hitting a residential building in Haret Hreik” near a mosque and a hospital, the National News Agency reported.

The Israeli military had earlier issued an “urgent warning” for civilians living near buildings it said were affiliated with Hezbollah in the neighbourhood to immediately evacuate.

“You are located near facilities and interests affiliated with Hezbollah, which the IDF (Israeli army) will work against in the near future,” the military’s Arabic spokesman Avichay Adraee said on Telegram.

Israel also struck dozens of south Lebanon villages and towns …