00:00We're around 50 miles south of Beirut.
00:04Very much the city is in the red zone.
00:06It's known as the red zone because Israel reissued late yesterday evening
00:10an evacuation warning to residents here,
00:13saying that they needed to leave if they wanted to get out of harm's way.
00:17Now, Israel had already issued that warning late last week,
00:20so last night saw even more people leaving the city.
00:23And as we were driving in, it was totally a ghost town
00:27because there were a few people around milling about.
00:29Some people on cars and motorbikes, but it was very, very, very quiet.
00:33What I can see here on the beachfront is a children's playground empty.
00:37Several swimming pools completely empty as well.
00:40It really feels like this city has emptied out.
00:44And what's interesting to note as well is that
00:46there had been many displaced Lemonese who would come here to this city
00:51from the areas further south, from near the border with Israel.
00:55They'd come here and now they've been displaced again.
00:58Some, though, staying on, saying they don't want to leave,
01:00they don't want to end up on the streets.
01:02We know there are over a million displaced Lebanese at the moment
01:06because there are simply not enough space and shelters,
01:09so many are sleeping in the streets or on their cars.
01:11So some people are staying on here, but the town really is very, very quiet today where I am.
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