00:00Covering the situation for us in Lebanon is our senior correspondent, Catherine Norris-Trent.
00:06She joins us now from Sidon, which is a city south of Beirut.
00:10It's a city that Israel has warned that it will strike.
00:13Catherine, tell us what you're seeing and what you're hearing.
00:19Good afternoon, Nadia.
00:20Well, I am right now in Sidon, which is a city about 40 kilometers south of Beirut,
00:25sometimes known as the gateway to the south.
00:28And I'm in the grounds of what was once an orphanage.
00:31But as you can see now, it's basically become a makeshift camp for displaced people
00:37because waves of them have been arriving here in Sidon from further south in Lebanon,
00:44from the city of Tyre, but also from the villages south of the Litani River
00:50towards the border, the blue line with Israel.
00:53Israel has ordered a mass evacuation order for anyone south of that river
00:58to leave their homes immediately in order to basically save their lives
01:03because there's huge, fierce fighting going on there
01:06and lots of airstrikes, Israeli airstrikes, on those locations.
01:10So we've got people here flooding into this city and heading further north.
01:16At this orphanage where I am, there are now 800 people nearly sheltering here.
01:22There's no space inside.
01:23And so they're basically sleeping outside under the open sky.
01:28And you can see they've been making kind of makeshift shelters
01:31with plastic sheets and blankets and things.
01:34They need more supplies, the organizers are telling us.
01:37They haven't got enough food for everyone.
01:39At the moment, it's Ramadan, so they're getting one meal a day
01:42when they break their fast.
01:43But people here are saying that when at the end of Ramadan,
01:46they won't be able to provide people with three meals a day.
01:50They haven't got enough water.
01:51They haven't got enough sanitary facilities.
01:52So you kind of get a feel coming here of the scale of the humanitarian crisis
01:57which is gripping Lebanon.
01:59The government here says that nearly 700,000 people have so far fled their homes
02:04and there are fears that that figure could just grow and grow.
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