IDF bombs Beirut for 6th consecutive day

Seven people were killed and another seven injured after an Israeli strike on Al-Saksakieh in southern Lebanon Monday evening local time, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health said.

Search and rescue teams are working to find missing people under the rubble, Lebanese national media reported.

The Israeli Defense Forces issued a warning to residents of 21 villages in southern Lebanon telling them to evacuate their homes immediately Monday evening local time.

-ABC News Ghazi Balkiz

Israel's far-right finance minister said he wants Israel to extend sovereignty to the West Bank in 2025 and believes U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will "support the State of Israel in this move."

"In the first term, President Trump led dramatic moves, including the transfer of the American embassy to Jerusalem and the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital city of Israel, recognition of the Golan Heights, and the decision on the legality and legitimacy of the settlements in Judea and Samaria, along with the Abraham agreements of peace for peace," Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said in remarks on Monday.

Smotrich, who has called for Israeli sovereignty in the Israeli-occupied West Bank for years, also said he has directed staff to begin "work to prepare the necessary infrastructure for the application of sovereignty" to the West Bank.

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The Israel Defense Forces said Hezbollah fired at least 75 projectiles into Israel on Monday.

Israel's Magen David Adom emergency service said it treated three people with shrapnel injuries in the area of Karmiel in northern Israel. Two other people were treated for shrapnel injuries in the Krayot area, the MDA said.

Hezbollah claimed several rocket and drone attacks on Monday.

Among the strikes was a "large rocket salvo" targeting a paratrooper training base in Karmiel settlement, Hezbollah said in a statement.

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Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Avichay Adraee issued a warning to residents of 21 south Lebanon villages to evacuate their homes until further notice, warning of imminent Israeli strikes there.

Adraee said in a post on X that the villages were the site of Hezbollah military activity and warned that the IDF would "act forcefully" against targets there.

"For your safety, you must evacuate your homes immediately and move to the north of the Awali River," Adraee wrote. "For your safety, you must evacuate without delay."

"You are prohibited from heading south," he added. "Any movement south could be dangerous to your life."

Around a quarter of Lebanese territory and a quarter of all residents -- some 1.2 million people -- are under IDF evacuation orders, per United Nations analysis.

Israel has killed more than 3,000 people in southern Lebanon since Oct. 8, 2023, Lebanese authorities have said.