Israel Orders Evacuation of Hezbollah-Held Beirut Stronghold Ahead of Strike (Update)
U.S. strikes Iran’s air defenses, drone control sites after downing of Predator drone.
Update: Following a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, President Trump Monday afternoon announced that Hezbollah had agreed to a ceasefire. In return, Israel will scale down its ground operations against the Iranian proxy terrorist group in Lebanon, he suggested.
Despite Iranian state media declaring a halt to negotiations, President Trump said talks were still proceeding.
The Jerusalem Post reported Monday afternoon:
After the call, Trump announced that Israel had agreed that “there will be no Troops going to Beirut, and any Troops that are on their way, have already been turned back.”
In exchange, he said, Hezbollah had agreed that all shooting will stop – “That Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel.”
President Trump on talks continuing with Iran: https://t.co/7Lq0aXjs97 pic.twitter.com/jvBfO5p0V0
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) June 1, 2026
On Monday, Israel issued a large-scale evacuation order for Beirut’s Dahieh suburb, Hezbollah’s main stronghold, amid an expanding military operation against the Iranian proxy terror group.
“Following the Hezbollah terrorist organization’s repeated and ongoing violations of the ceasefire in Lebanon and its attacks against our civilians and cities, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz have instructed the IDF to strike terror targets in the Dahia Quarter of Beirut,” the Israeli Prime Minister’s office announced on Monday.
The evacuation warning comes after Hezbollah rejected the latest U.S. proposal to de-escalate and intensified its aerial attacks against Israeli towns and cities.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
"Together with the Minister of Defense, I have instructed the IDF to strike terrorist targets in Beirut. There will not be a situation in which Hezbollah attacks our cities and our citizens, and its terrorist headquarters in Beirut, in Dahiyeh,… pic.twitter.com/g93PGk19aY— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) June 1, 2026
Residents of southern Beirut were seen fleeing the Hezbollah-held area following the evacuation order by the Israeli military aimed at minimizing civilian casualties. “After Monday’s warning, large numbers of people were seen fleeing Dahiyeh, jamming roads leading out of the suburb, where Hezbollah enjoys wide support,” the Associated Press reported.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah rockets and drones struck indiscriminately at Israeli population centers. “The renewed fire came after a significant escalation Sunday, when Hezbollah expanded the range of its launches and made heavy use of explosive drones and UAVs against northern Israel,” Israel’s Ynetnews reported. “Four people were lightly to moderately wounded in the evening when an explosive drone hit near Moshav Beit Hillel in the Galilee Panhandle.”
On Friday, Prime Minister Netanyahu announced that Israel was preparing to widen the military operation up to Beirut. “Our forces have crossed the Litani; they have advanced to controlling positions,” he said. “We are operating in Beirut, in the Beqaa, across the entire width of the front, and we are dealing Hezbollah a crushing blow.”
Israel is initiating strikes on the Beirut terror stronghold after securing U.S. approval. Amid ongoing talks between the U.S. and Iran, the Trump administration has been restraining Israel’s ability to strike back despite Hezbollah’s aggression. The Times of Israel reported:
Israel announced Monday morning that it would renew strikes on Hezbollah’s stronghold in southern Beirut, after significantly curtailing attacks on the Lebanese capital for weeks at the request of US President Donald Trump’s administration, even as the terror group has battered northern Israel with relentless rocket and drone attacks. Thirteen IDF soldiers have been killed in the fighting since a ceasefire ostensibly took effect in April.
Israel is also expanding its ground operation, pushing deeper into Hezbollah-controlled areas in southern Lebanon. According to the IDF, “it was operating near Nabatiya, another significant Hezbollah stronghold in southern Lebanon, and is prepared to expand its operations there as well,” the Jerusalem Post reported. “Nabatieh would be the farthest that IDF ground forces have advanced, around 20 kilometers from the Israeli border, whereas as of the April 17 ceasefire, the IDF was set at around 10 kilometers from the border.”
U.S. strikes Iran’s air defenses, drone control sites after downing of Predator drone
The U.S. struck air defenses and drone control sites in southern Iran over the weekend after the Iranian military shot down an American MQ-1 Predator drone over international waters.
U.S. airstrikes hit the Iranian islands of Goruk and Qeshm in the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran uses drone control sites located on these islands to impose a blockade of the Hormuz Strait, one of the world’s busiest waterways.
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on Sunday confirmed carrying out “self-defense strikes on Iranian radar and command and control sites for drones in Goruk (…) and Qeshm Island this weekend.”
“The measured and deliberate strikes occurred on Saturday and Sunday in response to aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a U.S. MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters,” CENTCOM announced. “U.S. fighter aircraft swiftly responded by eliminating Iranian air defenses, a ground control station, and two one-way attack drones that posed clear threats to ships transiting regional waters.”
UPDATE: U.S. military launches new strikes against Iranian territory, Iran fires missiles at Kuwait, and Hezbollah launches 50+ rockets into Israel as the IDF strikes Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/N2jfjG4lD1
— Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) June 1, 2026
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is apparently escalating the conflict by renewing strikes in the region. According to the BBC, Kuwait on Monday confirmed that “its air defence system was “confronting hostile missile and drone attacks” without providing further detail.” This is the second wave of Iranian drone and missile strikes against the neighbouring Arab state in less than a week. On Wednesday night, Iran launched an aerial strike, including ballistic missiles, aimed at Kuwait’s international airport.
Footage of an apparent Iranian missile fired at Kuwait a short time ago. The location of the launch was reported to be in Khuzestan province. Footage via Vahid. pic.twitter.com/XigmzwdrIi
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) June 1, 2026
This Iranian aggression comes amid President Donald Trump’s efforts to negotiate a deal with the regime regarding an extended ceasefire and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Demonstrating no willingness to reach a negotiated settlement, Iran claimed it fired another ballistic missile against Kuwait and mocked the U.S. president, the Associated Press reported:
Kuwait said its air defenses opened fire early Monday morning to intercept incoming drone and missile fire.
In a statement carried by the state-run IRNA news agency, the Guard said that U.S. forces had targeted a telecommunications tower. (…)
Iranian state television later shared footage of the ballistic missile launch, including a close-up showing a sticker on its body depicting a bruised U.S. President Donald Trump overlaid on a “closed” Strait of Hormuz with the caption: “Until the last American soldier leaves the region.”
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“Residents of southern Beirut were seen fleeing the Hezbollah-held area following the evacuation order…”
Wait, there are people that need to be told to avoid places where Hezbollah is in power?
That’s a special kind of stupid. You can’t build busses short enough for the galactic level of imbecility required to be in the proximity of that kind of evil.
“Demonstrating no willingness to reach a negotiated settlement, Iran claimed it fired another ballistic missile against Kuwait and mocked the U.S. president…”
There’s one thing that Mr. Trump cannot abide, being mocked. Private citizen Trump found himself being publicly mocked by the Chicago Jesus. That hasn’t turned out well for the Democrat Party, has it? (TBF, what about Obama hasn’t been a disaster for the left?)
We live in an era where Democratic Socialists want to get the defendants to ask permission before retaliating.
What is next, hold harmless agreements for the instigator as his opponent “Had it coming”?
Well…good people still live in California, Illinois and New York despite the one party gov’t failures and/or working against the best interest of normal Citizens. Everyone in Afghanistan ain’t in the Taliban and it isn’t as if several million Afghan refugees would be welcome elsewhere, certainly I don’t want them around here.
In Ramadi when ISIS (mostly Syrian and Iranian thugs + assorted foreign true believers) was in power in 05/06 the locals didn’t exactly have a lot of practical choice about relocating. Working to drive those a holes out was the most productive accomplishment of my career. They ruled by fear/intimidation. They demanded marriages into local clans and if refused would gang rape the would be bride to shame/intimidate the clan leaders into cooperation. Cut off fingers of folks who smoked, widespread beatings and humiliations to bully folks into compliance. I suspect that the folks in areas ruled by Hezbollah face similar treatment if they step out of line and like the Afghans stuck under Taliban don’t really have a landing spot to go to. I don’t want them here either.
Can you imagine any other country besides Israel warning the civilians in an area it is about to bomb? I can’t. I would expect US to do it but I’, not sure we do.
We did it in Iraq, even for ground operations in essence… ‘Y’all need to get out, pack one bag and get gone, pick up your little note/proof that you are an evacuee and you’ll be allowed back when operation concludes’. Once operation kicked off the presumption was only ‘bad guys’ remained. Very simple RoE at that point. It is a very effective tactic IMO b/c it demonstrates compassion,.care and restraint on the front end while removing foolish pettifogging rules about when one can engage on an urban asymmetric battlefield where the bad guys don’t wear neat uniforms.
Thanks for the info. Either that was never covered by the press or I didn’t read it or I didn’t remember it.
When I first went to make the statement I was going to say the western democratic nations but then I began to wonder whether or not that was true. Good to know at least we do it. Obviously muslims don’t and apparently neither do Russians or Ukranians.
Most don’t do it. Kinda short sighted IMO. If nothing else one can always point to the prior warning and if folks fail to heed it and bombs drop on their head that’s on them. Especially so when dealing with opponents using terrorism to coerce the populace; you gotta create a realistic threat large enough to them/their family that overcomes the visible/known threat of thugs next door to get the populace to separate. Russia has done it but intermittently not consistently and usually more as a psychological threat/lever than any concern about casualties. At root Russia is more Asian in outlook than Occidental in some respects and shares a similar emphasis on the collective/cohesion rather than the Western emphasis on the individual.
Forget to mention that you probably wouldn’t have read of it during the height of the Iraq or Afghan GWOT. Pretty much all media was focused on body count of US.casualties, doom and gloom. Especially from the dragging of contractors in 04 to well after the Anbar Awakening 06-07. It was a rough few years. We did the same in the city of Samarra in 04 successfully taking it after fierce house to house fighting but hardly anyone even knows about it other than the participants and military historians. Good news out of Iraq wasn’t the story the corporate media wanted in 04 and was overshadowed by ongoing events in Fallujah.
Oh and I;m very glad we did some bombing over the weekend to maintain the cease fire, Can we have much more maintenance please.
Peter, you query, “what about Obama hasn’t been a disaster for the left?”
Obama made the left’s left acceptable. He is why ANTIFA did not get quashed from the get go. (Obama: ““’If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,’ Obama said at a fundraiser in Philadelphia”. (https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/campaigns/40703-obama-on-gop-if-they-bring-a-knife-to-the-fight-we-bring-a-gun/)
ANTIFA is a Democrat Party gun.
Obama paved the way for, among others, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
And, Obama is the role model for Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger both in campaigning and governing.
And, Obama, as much as we may dislike him, was the start of Democrat Party presidential nominees winning the popular vote 4 straight times. Heck, even word salad Kamala Harris pulled in over 48% of the popular vote.
So, as much as I believe Obama has been a disaster for the USA, he has been a boon for the left.
Now do the auto-pen.
I’d like to get the autopen’s signature. Do you think that’s possible?
Crap I should have said autograph and not signature.
djt WRONGGGG on this one
iran isnt holding back with us b/c of israel
iran is WISELY using these moments to have trump push on irsrael so as to create CONFLICT BETWEEN THE USA ND ISRAEL
iran like the rest of the mumdummis in america are waiting for that headline
Trump and Netanyahu love affair ends
I’d much prefer the US and Israel working with the government of Lebanon to completely annihilate Hezbollah.
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