Medical Aid for Palestinians accused Israel of ‘deliberately endangering civilians’ across Lebanon.
Published: March 6, 2026
Israel is exporting its Gaza playbook to Lebanon, a non-profit group has warned, as Israeli forces continue to attack Lebanon after ordering the forcible displacement of hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians.
Palestinian Medical Assistance (MAP) said on Friday that Israel’s bombing and forced displacement orders across southern Lebanon and southern suburbs of the capital Beirut were “instilling widespread fear among the civilian population.”
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“What we are seeing in Lebanon is a clear expansion of the Israeli military operations used in the Gaza Strip,” said Steve Cutts, CEO of the UK-based charity.
“This includes collective punishment, forced displacement and deliberate terrorism against civilians, including already traumatized Palestinian communities,” Kurtz said in a statement.
Israel’s military ordered forced displacement across southern Lebanon on Wednesday, forcing tens of thousands of residents to flee their homes and communities under threat of attack.
A day later, Israel issued a similar order for the southern suburbs of Beirut, the Lebanese capital.
Intense fighting between Israel and Hezbollah resumed on Monday after the Lebanese group fired rockets toward Israeli territory following the assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran.
At least 217 people have been killed and 798 wounded in Israeli attacks across Lebanon since Monday, according to the latest statistics from Lebanon’s Health Ministry.
Human rights groups have raised warnings about Israel’s forced relocation order, stressing that shelters in Lebanon are full and many families have nowhere to go.
“We saw people sleeping on the streets, sleeping on the corniche (Beirut) and sleeping in schools that had been converted into reception centres,” Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith reported from the Lebanese capital on Friday.
“People want to know how long they have to do this, how long they have to be away from home, and the authorities can’t tell them.”
The Israeli military regularly issues similar orders in its genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to relocate on multiple occasions during Israel’s more than two-year bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
Last September, the Israeli military issued a forced relocation order to the entire Gaza Strip, drawing criticism from the international community.
“This order is cruel and unlawful and further worsens the genocidal living conditions that Israel is inflicting on the Palestinian people,” Human Rights Watch said at the time.
Israeli leaders also compared Israel’s escalating offensive against Lebanon this week to the war in Gaza.
On Thursday, after a mandatory evacuation order was issued for Beirut’s southern suburbs, Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Israel was planning to turn the Dahiyeh area into a Khan Younis region.
Khan Younis, a city in southern Gaza, like most of the Strip, has lost many lives to Israel’s war.
