BEIRUT - Israel's military issued new displacement orders on Sunday to residents of towns and villages in southern Lebanon, including areas beyond its current zone of occupation, despite the truce meant to halt fighting with Hezbollah, Al Jazeera reported. "For your safety, you must evacuate your homes immediately and move away from the villages and towns by at least 1,000 metres [0.6 miles] into open areas," the Israeli military's Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee posted on X on Sunday.

Source: Al Jazeera, Nov 1, 2026

The warning covers more than 10 villages and towns, including several in the district of Nabatieh that lie north of the Litani River, south of which Israel has stationed troops, Al Jazeera said. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency later reported a series of Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon, including on towns not mentioned in the displacement order.

Source: Al Jazeera, citing Lebanon's National News Agency, Nov 1, 2026

10+Towns and villages ordered to evacuate on Sunday
3Towns receiving such an order for the first time, Al Jazeera reported
2,659People killed in Lebanon since the war escalated on March 2, Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health said
8,183People injured in the same period, the ministry said

Al Jazeera's Rory Challands, reporting from Beirut, said what was significant about Sunday morning's orders was that three of the towns were receiving them for the first time and some lay north of the Litani, adding that collectively the orders showed Israel's area of operations continued to expand. He said the United States-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, in force since mid-April and recently extended to mid-May, "exists only in name", and that Israel was bombing and demolishing homes extensively in the south.

The orders follow through on a threat made on Wednesday by Israel's military chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, who said during a visit to Israeli troops that any threat "including beyond the Yellow Line and north of the Litani - will be eliminated", referring to the line marking the area of Israeli control. In the past week, two Israeli soldiers and an army contractor have been killed by drone attacks in the area and dozens of soldiers wounded, Al Jazeera reported.

Sunday's expansion came a day after Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health said at least 10 people were killed in Israeli attacks across the country on Saturday, taking the total death toll since the Israel-Hezbollah war escalated on March 2 to 2,659, with 8,183 injured. A fragile US-brokered ceasefire has been in place between Israel and Lebanon since April 17, aimed at halting the violence between Hezbollah and Israel's military.

The United States has called for direct peace negotiations between Lebanon and Israel, but Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said on Wednesday that Israel should fully implement the ceasefire before talks can take place. No casualty figures from Sunday's strikes had been independently confirmed when this report was published; the displacement orders themselves - the first to reach three of these towns - mark the newest widening of the campaign in the south.