Aisha Tukur
- More than 90,000 people have been displaced in Lebanon since Monday, the UN says, as Israel’s military says it is carrying out a new wave of “extensive” strikes in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa area
- Fifty-one people have been killed in Israeli air strikes on Wednesday, Lebanon’s health ministry says
- Earlier, Israel said it had intercepted a ballistic missile fired by Hezbollah towards Tel Aviv – the first such rocket to target the city
- Iran-backed Hezbollah says it is resisting Israeli “aggression” and acting in solidarity with Palestinians. Israel says it aims to remove the threat from Hezbollah
- Since 8 October, there has been near-daily cross border fire between Israel and Hezbollah and 60,000 people are displaced from northern Israel
- The UK PM has told British nationals in Lebanon to “leave immediately”. Other countries – including the US, Canada, France and Japan – are also urging their citizens to leave.
People fleeing southern Lebanon are sleeping on the sides of roads as they head north, an aid worker tells the BBC’s World At One.
Speaking from Marjayoun in the south-east of the country, Eva Homsi, an emergency coordinator and head of programming at Shield, says roads were blocked by the sheer number of people seeking safety.
She says it was “really hard” to see people sleeping in their parked cars and “on the road without blankets, without pillows, without mattresses, without food”.
A combination of blocked roads and Israeli air strikes also meant supplies are not arriving, she says, adding that bread and medicine have not been delivered since Sunday.
