Thousands flee as Netanyahu orders Israeli bombing of southern Beirut

Iran calls off all further talks maintaining that a ceasefire in Lebanon is a precondition of broader truce with US• Middle East crisis – live updatesThousands of Beirut residents have fled their homes after Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the Israeli military to bomb the city’s southern suburbs, a move that threatens to derail Iran-US peace talks.The Israeli prime minister and his defence minister, Israel Katz, said they had given instructions to strike “terrorist targets” in the southern suburbs for what they described as “repeated and ongoing violations of the ceasefire by Hezbollah”. Continue reading...