Lebanese fleeing Israeli air raids: 'We are scared, but we will stand together'

Israel attacks Lebanon - Israeli raids kill 569 (including 50 children), wound over 1,900

While the Lebanese government is "opening schools for displaced people to live in, to shelter in Beirut, in Saida, and the entire country," the people across Lebanon started spontaneously helping each other with many citizens “on the roads from south Lebanon, from Saida to Beirut… giving free water, they are asking if they need anything,” Gia, a 24-year-old woman from Tyre, tells the story.

Scared by Israeli attacks, local people are still feeling united with Gazans and willing to help them to stand "against one enemy".

"We are here supporting Gaza and the people of Palestine. Yes, we are living in horror. Yes, we are displaced. Yes, it's terrifying. Yes, our country and our city, our southern Lebanon are bombed. Yes, we are scared. But we will stand together all against our one enemy. We will stand together hand in hand… But I'm literally speechless because I have goosebumps all over my body. We have to live. We have to help the people of Gaza," Gia notes.

Lebanese flee north toward Beirut as Israel bombs the south of Lebanon

Speaking about the Israel Defense Forces’ raids on Lebanon, she highlights that “they are not targeting the things they said they are targeting," pointing out the huge number of civilians murdered in one day.

"In the safe places where the Israelis claim that someone form the Resistance were there, but they're not - because there are our friends, we know them. A lot of civilians are suffering. I witnessed also, while coming from Tyre, from south Lebanon, I was seeing the bombing of houses."

A man stands amidst the rubble after hit by an Israeli airstrike in southern village of Akbieh, Lebanon on Tuesday, September 2024

 

Hezbollah target Israeli naval base near Haifa

Hezbollah says in a statement that it unleashed a squadron of attack drones on the headquarters of the Israeli army’s Special Naval Task Force at the Alit Base.

The base is south of the major northern city of Haifa, the area of which was first targeted by Hezbollah over the weekend in response to an Israeli attack on the southern suburbs of Beirut that killed over 40 people.

Hezbollah said that this attack on the Alit base targeted “the locations of [Israeli] officers and soldiers” and achieved direct hits.