Nearly 700,000 Flee Israeli Strikes in Lebanon

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Nearly 700,000 Flee Israeli Strikes in Lebanon

Nearly 700,000 people have been driven from their homes in Lebanon, the United Nations said on Tuesday, as Israel’s mass evacuation orders and bombing campaign transform the country into a major new front in the expanding Middle East war.

Israeli airstrikes pounded Lebanon anew, sending residents fleeing for safety and prompting warnings of a growing humanitarian crisis. Bombing also continued in Iran, where a resident warned that “if they keep hitting Tehran like this for another 10 days, nothing will remain.” In Washington, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth vowed those attacks would go on, and said that Tuesday would be the “most intense day” of American strikes since the start of the war.

In Beirut and its densely packed surrounding area, tens of thousands of people fleeing Israel’s attacks on the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah were living in schools and government buildings, while others slept in cars and on sidewalks along the city’s seaside promenade.

More than 667,000 people have registered on the Lebanese government’s online displacement platform, the U.N. migration agency said on Tuesday, citing government figures. That included more than 100,000 in the past 24 hours, the agency said.

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