Employees evacuated a building in central Beirut that houses Al Jazeera's offices and the embassies of Azerbaijan and Norway, in addition to the Lebanese government's Audit Bureau building, on Thursday, after receiving Israeli evacuation warnings.

An employee of the Qatari Al Jazeera channel in the Beirut office said that they "received successive calls believed to be Israeli, warning them of the need to evacuate the building immediately."

Later, Al Jazeera reported via the "X" platform, quoting its correspondent in Beirut, that the employees of the channel's office in a building in central Beirut that includes the offices of the embassies of Azerbaijan and Norway evacuated it after receiving successive Israeli warnings.

The head of the Audit Bureau (affiliated with the government), Judge Mohammad Badran, stated in a call to the Lebanese News Agency that the Bureau “received a call via its landline warning of the possibility of its building being subjected to an Israeli attack.”

Badran explained that "the call was placed in the custody of the Lebanese security services to verify its authenticity and take the necessary measures if it was issued by people with the aim of spreading confusion."

After clashes with factions in Lebanon, including Hezbollah, which began after Israel launched a war of genocide on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, Tel Aviv expanded the scope of the genocide since September 23 to include most of Lebanon’s regions, including the capital Beirut, through air strikes, and also began a ground invasion in the south.