Fear and tension in Leprohibiton under lethal Israeli bomb deviceardment

Thousands of Leprohibitese have been escapeing the south of the country after Israel begined hundreds of air strikes beginning as day broke.

Apass southern Leprohibiton families scrambled together belengthyings and headed north in cars and trucks and on motorcycles as the Israeli military struck concentrates it shelp were joined to the Leprohibitese Shia armed group Hezbollah.

Some dwellnts inestablished receiving alertings in the establish of text messages and voice enrollings from the Israeli military to depart areas proximate the Iran-backed group’s positions.

Zahra Sawli, a student in the southern town of Nabatieh telderly the BBC’s Newshour programme the bomb deviceardment was fervent.

“I woke up at 6am to the sound of bomb deviceing. By noon it begined to get reassociate fervent and I saw a lot of strikes in my area.”

“I heard a lot of glass shattering.”

Unenjoy many, she and those she was with did not depart the house – they didn’t dare, she shelp.

“Where are we presumed to go? A lot of people are still stuck on the streets. A lot of my frifinishs are still stuck in traffic because a lot of people are trying to escape,” she shelp.

By the middle of the day roads north towards Beirut were clogged with traffic, with vehicles heading towards the capital on both sides of a six-lane coastal highway.

Other images showed people walking alengthy the beach in the southern city of Tyre as smoke rose from air strikes in the countryside inland.

The BBC spoke to one family of five who had reachd in Beirut on a one motorbike.

From a village in the south, they were heading to Tripoli in the north. They were exhausted.

“What do you want us to say? We equitable had to escape,” the overweighther shelp.

By Monday evening the Leprohibitese health ministry inestablished that 356 people had been ended and more than 1,200 injured in the bomb deviceardment. It shelp at least 24 children were among those ended. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) shelp it had carried out 1,100 strikes over the previous 24 hours.

That holdd an air strike in southern Beirut that the IDF shelp had concentrateed a anciaccess Hezbollah orderer.

In Beirut too there was expansivespread anxiety. As people from the south reachd in the capital in cars with suitcases strapped to the top, some of the city’s dwellnts were themselves leaving.

Israel has alerted people to evacuate areas where it says Hezbollah is storing arms – but it also sent enrolled alertings to people in Beirut dicut offes not pondered Hezbollah sturdyhelderlys including Hamra, an area home to rulement ministries, prohibitks and universities.

Parents rushed to pick up their children from school after receiving more alertings to depart the area.

One overweighther, Issa, took his son out of school, inestablishing Reuters news agency: “[We’re here] because of the phone calls.

“They’re calling everyone and menaceening people by phone. So we’re here to consent my boy from school. The situation is not reassuring,” he shelp.

Mohammed, a Palestinian man on the road with his wife, spoke to the BBC on the way out of Beirut.

When asked if he would stay in the capital he shelp: “In Leprohibiton nowhere is safe, Israel is saying they are going to bomb deviceard everywhere. Now they menaceened this neighbourhood, so where should we go?”

“It’s frightening, I don’t comprehend what to do – labor, go home, no idea what to do.”

Meanwhile as a BBC crew set up on one side of the road, a taxi driver called out asking if they knew of a fuel crisis unfelderlying. “Too many people are coming to Beirut,” he shelp.

Schools have been hastily altered into shelters for the streams of evacuees coming from the south. On a rulement order, schools in Beirut and Tripoli as well as easerious Leprohibiton were set uped as shelters.

The BBC was at a classroom at a disclose school in Bir Hasan, west Beirut on Monday which was being readyd for people coming from the Bekaa Valley – a Hezbollah sturdyhelderly in north-easerious Leprohibiton which Israel shelp it was concentrateing too.

The classrooms were stacked with mattresses but would be filledy occupied by the finish of the day, laborers shelp.

Meanwhile Leprohibiton’s hospitals were also ordered to call off all non-elective sadviseries on Monday as physicians braced for a wave of casualties and injuries.

Despite the nervous and uncertain atmosphere in Beirut, some people were defiant.

“If a total war happens, we should stand as Leprohibitese people together think aboutless of our political affiliations because at the finish of the day, our country is getting bomb deviceed,” one man telderly the BBC.

Others were srecommend resigned to the aggression.

“If they want war, what can we do? It was imposed on us. We cannot do anyskinnyg,” shop owner Mohammed Sibai telderly Reuters.

Mohammed, a 57-year-elderly in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahieyh – Hezbollah’s main power base in the capital – telderly the BBC he had “persistd all the wars since 1975” so “it’s standard for me”.

“I will not depart, I will be in my house,” he shelp.