Israel's chilling warning to Lebanese villagers after strikes in the south of the country and UN warns of 'catastrophic' conflict

Rescuers are searching for survivors pursuing an Israeli airstrike in the southbound of Lebanese with villagers told to not instrumentality home.

UN peacekeepers successful Lebanon person warned against a 'catastrophic' determination struggle arsenic Israeli forces battled Hezbollah and Hamas militants connected 2 fronts, connected the holiest time of the Jewish calendar.

Israel has faced a fierce diplomatic backlash implicit incidents successful southbound Lebanon that saw 5 UN peacekeepers injured.

Lebanon's wellness ministry said connected Saturday that an Israeli aerial strikes connected 2 villages adjacent Beirut killed astatine slightest 9 people. 

Official media aboriginal reported an Israeli onslaught targeted a marketplace successful Nabatiyeh, an important confederate city. 

Pictures amusement the wide harm caused by the airstrikes arsenic rescuers hunt for immoderate survivors successful the wreckage. 

Israel had earlier told residents of southbound Lebanon not to instrumentality home, arsenic its troops fought Hezbollah militants successful a warfare that has killed much than 1,200 radical since September 23, and forced much than a cardinal others to fly their homes, Lebanese authorities say.

'For your ain protection, bash not instrumentality to your homes until further notice... Do not spell south; anyone who goes southbound whitethorn enactment his beingness astatine risk,' Israeli subject spokesperson Avichay Adraee posted connected X.

Hezbollah said it fired missiles into bluish Israel, wherever aerial raid sirens sounded and the subject said it had intercepted a projectile.

The Iran-backed militants person stepped up their attacks connected targets successful and astir Israel's main bluish metropolis of Haifa.

Israel's subject said Hezbollah fired astir 320 projectiles into Israel implicit the play of Yom Kippur, which ended astatine nightfall.

It besides said astir 280 'terror targets' were attacked successful Lebanon and Gaza implicit the aforesaid period.

For the 3rd time, it declared a 'closed subject area' on the Lebanese borderline successful bluish Israel.

Such measures since precocious September person preceded crushed operations wrong Lebanon.

In an interrogation with AFP, Andrea Tenenti, spokesperson for the United Nations peacekeeping mission, UNIFIL, said helium feared an Israeli escalation against Hezbollah could soon spiral retired of power 'into a determination struggle with catastrophic interaction for everyone'.

There was 'no subject solution', Tenenti said.

The UN ngo said 5 peacekeepers person been injured during warring successful southbound Lebanon successful 2 days, and Tenenti said 'a batch of damage' had been caused to its posts there.

Around Israel, markets were closed and nationalist transport halted arsenic observant Jews fasted and prayed connected Yom Kippur.

After the holiday, attraction is apt to crook again to Israel's promised retaliation against Iran, which launched astir 200 missiles astatine Israel connected October 1.

Tehran said the barrage was retaliation for the sidesplitting of apical militants and an Iranian general.

Israeli forces person been astatine warfare successful Gaza since Hamas Palestinian militants connected October 7 past twelvemonth carried retired the worst-ever onslaught connected Israel.

Hezbollah, saying it was acting arsenic a 'support' beforehand for Hamas, had been exchanging cross-border occurrence with Israel for astir a year.

But connected September 30 Israel began a crushed violative against Hezbollah successful Lebanon aft intensifying aerial strikes connected targets there.

On Friday, Israel faced disapproval from the UN, its Western allies and others implicit what it said was a 'hit' connected a UN peacekeeping presumption successful Lebanon.

Two Sri Lankan Blue Helmets were wounded successful the 2nd specified incidental successful 2 days, UNIFIL said Friday.

Israel's subject said soldiers had responded to 'an contiguous threat' astir 50 metres (yards) from the UNIFIL basal successful Naqura, and pledged to transportation retired a 'thorough review'.

The Irish military's main of staff, Sean Clancy, said it was 'not an accidental act', and French President Emmanuel Macron said helium believed the peacekeepers had been 'deliberately targeted'.

Both countries are unit contributors to UNIFIL.

Efforts to negociate an extremity to the Lebanon warfare person truthful acold failed, but Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said his authorities would inquire the UN Security Council to contented a caller solution calling for a 'full and contiguous ceasefire'.