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Large-scale evacuations were carried out yesterday in the Dahieh suburbs of southern Beirut, Lebanon, where Israel has been carrying out strikes.

BBC Arabic has been speaking with displaced families.

“What can I say? We no
longer know what to take with us, what to do, or how we will run while carrying
our children,” says Fatima.

“Sometimes I sit and
think about my house: is it possible that I
may never see it again? I still haven’t finished repairing it since the
previous war,” she adds.

“Last time when we were displaced, we took the cat with us. We put it in a hotel and paid money for it, while we ourselves were displaced to a school… But this time we
couldn’t take it out.”

Zahraa describes how she slept in a car. “There were four of us,” she says.

“It was a shock for us to leave our homes like that. There was suffocating traffic, and we kept thinking that we might be hit by an airstrike at any moment. No one could understand what was going to happen.”