Some locals claimed that the Israeli military had sent them voicemails and texts warning them to avoid the areas close to the positions of the Iran-backed group.
A student from the southern town of Nabatieh named Zahra Sawli told the News that the bombardment was severe.
“At six in the morning, I heard bombs going off. It became particularly heated by midday, and I witnessed other strikes in my neighborhood.”
“I heard a lot of glass shattering.”
She did not depart with those she was with, unlike many others.
By the middle of the day routes north towards Beirut were jammed with traffic, with vehicles driving into the capital on both sides of a six-lane coastal highway.
In other photos, people were seen strolling down Tyre’s shore in the south while smoke billowed from airstrikes that had hit the inland region.
The news interviewed a family of five that had taken a single motorcycle to Beirut.
They were traveling from a village in the south to Tripoli in the north. They were worn out.
