Iran hints at direct action against Israel as it declares Hezbollah 'cannot stand alone' amid warnings the Middle East is heading for 'complete destabilisation' as tens of thousands flee their homes

  Iran hints at direct action against Israel as it declares Hezbollah 'cannot stand alone' 

Iran has hinted at direct action against Israel as it declared that Hezbollah 'cannot stand alone' against Israel which carried out its deadliest day of air strikes on Lebanon since 2006.

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian told CNN that its ally Hezbollah 'cannot stand alone against a country that is being defended and supported and supplied by Western countries, by European countries and the United States.' 

He called on the international community to 'not allow Lebanon to become another Gaza,' in response to a question if Iran would use its influence with Hezbollah to urge restraint.

Israel's brutal bombardment of targets across Lebanon has prompted a mass exodus with tens of thousands of citizens fleeing their homes yesterday even as IDF bombs continued to fall overnight.

Some 492 people were killed, including more than 90 women and children, in yesterday's round-the-clock attacks that devastated huge swathes of territory in the south and east of the country.

Israel's Defence Forces gave Lebanese civilians a matter of hours to pack up and leave their homes before commencing a punishing bombing campaign of what they claimed were command-and-control centres, ammo dumps and other locations used by Hezbollah.

That hurried evacuation order gave way to shocking pictures showing highways completely logjammed as terrified citizens desperately tried to flee the strike zones on the deadliest single day since the 2006 war.

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