” Guterres is visiting the country to launch a flash appeal for $325m to support the 800,000 plus people who have been internally displaced since Lebanon was dragged into the Middle East war on March 2, when Hezbollah attacked Israel in response to the US-Israeli killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Asked by Al Jazeera’s Bernard Smith whether Israel’s forcible evacuation orders, now covering 14 percent of the country, were “consistent with international humanitarian law”, Guterres said: “Whatever does not create enough security for civilians inevitably becomes in violation of international humanitarian law. Incidentally, she said, the Israeli cabinet was planning to meet on Saturday night to discuss “a possible ground invasion” and “the occupation of southern Lebanon – 10 percent of it, all the way to the Litani River”. Israel kept up strikes on Lebanon on Saturday as the Ministry of Public Health reported that the death toll from Israeli strikes had reached 826 since March 2, with more than 2,000 people wounded. Lebanese health authorities said an overnight Israeli strike killed 12 doctors, paramedics and nurses working at a healthcare centre in the southern town of Burj Qalawiya. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told a news conference on Saturday that Israel could be committing “a new genocide”, referring to the killing of at least 72,000 Palestinians in Gaza and fears of a possible Israeli ground invasion in Lebanon.