Maha Yahya, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center think tank, told CNN’s Eleni Giokos that “we’re seeing a replay of things we have seen in Gaza.”

She said Israel had issued evacuation orders across roughly 10% of Lebanese territory, affecting an estimated half a million people.

“It’s the same story, mass evacuation notices, targeting of Israeli policy makers, threatening ambulances and accusing ambulances of carrying Hezbollah members,” Yahya said.

“It’s no more just about whether Hezbollah may have military assets. It’s basically a collective punishment of the entire population,” she added.

More than 1 million people in Lebanon have been internally displaced and at least 886 people killed since the latest conflict began two weeks ago, according to Lebanese authorities.