Avichay Adraee issued the following statement on X:

Urgent warning to residents of Dahiyeh - Beirut: save your lives and evacuate your homes immediately.

Residents of the areas of Burj al-Brajneh, Lebanon and Haret Hreik, Lebanon, please head east toward Mount Lebanon via the Beirut–Damascus axis.

Residents of Al-Hadath, Lebanon and Chiyah, Lebanon, move north toward Tripoli via the Beirut–Tripoli highway and east toward Mount Lebanon through the Metn Express highway.

Attention: You are forbidden to head south. Moving south may put your life in danger.

We will inform you at the appropriate time when it is safe to return home.