Families flee Israeli air strikes minutes before homes destroyed

People sleeping rough at a Beirut school describe fleeing Israel's bombardment with moments to spare.

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Lebanon's health ministry reported 105 people killed in Sunday's strikes - two days after Israel assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut. Meanwhile, Hezbollah fired more rockets into northern Israel.

Lebanese families displaced by the air strikes have told the BBC of their fear and anxiety over what is to come.

We visited one school in a southern Beirut suburb housing around 2,000 people who have fled their homes. Many of them were having to sleep in the courtyard because they could not find space indoors.

Grandmother Um Ahmad says a building just next to their home in southern Lebanon was badly hit by an Israeli air strike. She and her family survived “magically”, she says.

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