Hundreds of families fled bombings in southern Beirut suburbs
Hundreds of families crammed into cars fled, during the night from Friday to Saturday, the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, target of intense Israeli strikes, correspondents from Agence France-Presse (AFP) noted.
Following a call from the Israeli army to evacuate, traffic jams formed in the middle of the night in the streets of the capital, usually deserted at this time and plunged into darkness due to lack of power.
On Martyrs’ Square, in the center of Beirut, or on the seaside ledge, men, women and children were sitting on the ground, looking disoriented.
“We were at home when there was this call to evacuate. We took our identity papers, our belongings and we left”Radwan Msallam, a Syrian refugee living in the southern suburbs, told AFP. This father of six children aged 3 to 17 added that he did not “nowhere to go”explaining that he could not return to his country.
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