Middle East latest: Israel issues evacuation warning for the entire Baalbek city in eastern Lebanon

The Israeli army has issued an evacuation warning for residents in the entire eastern Lebanese city of Baalbeck, along with surrounding areas and key routes in the Bekaa Valley. The area marked for evacuation Wednesday includes the ancient Roman temple complex, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Nearly 2,800 people have been killed in Lebanon since Oct. 8, 2023. That's when Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel in solidarity with Hamas in Gaza, drawing retaliation. The death toll from more than a year of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza has passed 43,000. Multiple United Nations agencies are rallying around their fellow organization, UNRWA, that provides aid to Palestinian refugees, after Israel’s parliament took steps to ban it in the coming months.