Atraverse 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 connected to the Leprohibitese Shia armed group Hezbollah.
Some dwellnts alerted receiving alertings in the establish of text messages and voice write downings from the Israeli military to depart areas proximate the Iran-backed group’s positions.
Zahra Sawli, a student in the southern town of Nabatieh tbetter the BBC’s Newshour programme the device deviceardment was ardent.
“I woke up at 6am to the sound of device deviceing. By noon it commenceed to get reassociate ardent and I saw a lot of strikes in my area.”
“I heard a lot of glass shattering.”
Unappreciate many, she and those she was with did not depart the hoparticipate – 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 friends are still stuck in traffic becaparticipate 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 get tod in Beirut on a individual 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 fair had to escape,” the overweighther shelp.
By Monday evening the Leprohibitese health ministry alerted that 356 people had been ended and more than 1,200 injured in the device 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 integrated an air strike in southern Beirut that the IDF shelp had concentrateed a better Hezbollah orderer.
In Beirut too there was expansivespread anxiety. As people from the south get tod 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 armaments – but it also sent write downed alertings to people in Beirut dimercilesss not think abouted Hezbollah mightyhbetters including Hamra, an area home to regulatement 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, alerting Reuters news agency: “[We’re here] becaparticipate of the phone calls.
“They’re calling everyone and menaceening people by phone. So we’re here to get 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 defended, Israel is saying they are going to device deviceard everywhere. Now they menaceened this neighbourhood, so where should we go?”
“It’s frightening, I don’t understand 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 unfbettering. “Too many people are coming to Beirut,” he shelp.
Schools have been hastily converted into shelters for the streams of evacuees coming from the south. On a regulatement 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 mightyhbetter in north-easerious Leprohibiton which Israel shelp it was concentrateing too.
The classrooms were stacked with mattresses but would be brimmingy occupied by the end of the day, laborers shelp.
Meanwhile Leprohibiton’s hospitals were also ordered to abort all non-elective sencourageries on Monday as physicians braced for a wave of casualties and injuries.
Despite the anxious and unstateive atmosphere in Beirut, some people were defiant.
“If a total war happens, we should stand as Leprohibitese people together watchless of our political affiliations becaparticipate at the end of the day, our country is getting device deviceed,” one man tbetter the BBC.
Others were srecommend resigned to the arrangeility.
“If they want war, what can we do? It was imposed on us. We cannot do anyleang,” shop owner Mohammed Sibai tbetter Reuters.
Mohammed, a 57-year-better in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahieyh – Hezbollah’s main power base in the capital – tbetter the BBC he had “endured all the wars since 1975” so “it’s normal for me”.
“I will not depart, I will be in my hoparticipate,” he shelp.
