Israel bombards Beirut as IDF orders mass evacuation
Israeli strikes bombarded Lebanon's capital again on Wednesday morning, as the Israeli military issued a number of evacuation warnings for parts of Beirut and huge swathes of southern Lebanon.
The strikes on Beirut were concentrated on the densely populated southern suburbs, including Dahiyeh, a Hezbollah stronghold.
In Hazmieh, another southern neighborhood of Beirut, the Comfort Hotel was struck without warning before dawn Wednesday, a local council member told ABC News, confirming what Lebanese state media had been reporting.
ABC News has reached out to the Israel Defense Forces for comment on the hotel strike.
The IDF on Wednesday also ordered all residents of southern Lebanon south of the Litani River -- which is around 18 miles north of the border with Israel -- to evacuate to the north.
The IDF said in a Wednesday post to X that it targeted "an underground Hezbollah weapon storage facility and additional command centers in Beirut."
-ABC News' Ghazi Balkiz, Morgan Winsor and Dorit Long
