Israel probing leaflets dropped by unit ordering southern Lebanon evacuation

JERUSALEM — The Israeli military said on Sunday it was investigating after a unit dropped unauthorized leaflets on a border area in southern Lebanon ordering residents to leave.

Lebanon's state-run national news agency reported that Israel had dropped leaflets ordering residents out of the Wazzani area.

The Israeli military said dropping the leaflets was an unauthorized action by a unit that had not sought appropriate approval, and that there was no evacuation underway.

Tens of thousands of civilians have already fled villages and towns on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon frontier during months of cross border strikes, since Lebanon's armed Hezbollah movement stepped up attacks alongside the war in Gaza. — Reuters