Fleeing Zionist entity strikes, south Lebanon families move into schools

Fleeing Zionist entity strikes, south Lebanon families move into schools

TYRE, Lebanon: Shocked by images of dead children in Gaza, Mustafa Al-Sayyid quickly whisked his family to the closest shelter when Zionist strikes began near his village in southern Lebanon this week. “What we are seeing on television—the massacres happening in Gaza, the children—it cuts your heart to pieces,” said the 53-year-old from Beit Lif, barely six kilometers (3.7 miles) from the Zionist entity border. “If I wasn’t afraid this would happen to us, I wouldn’t have left my home,” said Sayyid, who has two wives and 11 children, around half of whom are under 10.

The family is among nearly 4,000 people who have fled flashpoint areas near the Zionist entity frontier and flocked to the southern city of Tyre, according to local officials. Around half are staying in three public schools that have been converted into makeshift shelters, while the rest hunker down with relatives or friends. The scale of displacement has gradually swelled since the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a massive October 7 assault on southern Zionist entity, killing at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping more than 200 in the deadliest attack in Zionist entity’s history.

Since then, some 4,385 Palestinians, mainly civilians, have been killed