Countless cars, vans and pickup trucks were loaded with luggage and packed with passengers.
Cars were seen carrying members of one family. Other families fled quickly, taking only the basic necessities they had gathered as bombs fell overhead.
Abdul-Afu, whose village of Yater was subjected to heavy shelling at dawn today, said, “When the raids started this morning on the houses, I took all the important papers and left. There are raids everywhere around us. It’s scary.”
Abdul-Afou, who has remained in Yatar since the fighting began even though it is only about 5 kilometers from the Israeli border, said he decided to leave when bombs started falling on homes in the area.
“I had my hand on my son’s back and was telling him not to be afraid,” he said. Now the Al-Afou family is stranded on the highway as traffic heads north.
The pardon indicates that they do not know where they will stay but they just want to get to Beirut.
Israel and the group exchange Hezbollah Lebanese cross-border fire since Gaza war began last year with attack Hamas Movement Hezbollah’s ally, but Israel has rapidly intensified its military campaign over the past week.
As the shelling escalated to include other parts of Lebanon on Monday, residents received pre-recorded phone calls from Israeli army Order them to leave their homes for their own safety.
