Israel issues forced evacuation order for entire Dahiyeh area of Lebanon’s capital, home to hundreds of thousands. Far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has threatened to turn the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital into another Gaza Strip, as the Israeli military ordered hundreds of thousands of people to immediately leave their homes in Beirut. In a video shared online on Thursday, Smotrich warned that the Dahiyeh area would soon look “like Khan Younis”, a city in southern Gaza that has been decimated in Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in the enclave. “The southern suburbs will become like Khan Younis,” the Israeli minister said. Smotrich’s threat came just hours after the Israeli army issued a forced evacuation order for several areas of southern Beirut, ...