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‘Everyone is leaving’: bombardments drive tens of thousands from southern Lebanon

Israeli and Hezbollah forces exchanging almost daily fire across boundary zone, say observers

Nancy Faraj was eating lunch with her family at her home in the village of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon when Israel bombed the house next door, killing two of her neighbours.

Within hours she and her family had grabbed a handful of possessions and headed north-west for the city of Tyre, 50 miles (80km) south of Beirut, where they are now living in a school with several hundred others.

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