Aya Batraoui

NPR's producer in Beirut, Joad Rizkallah, spoke with families fleeing to school shelters with their kids and lugging mattresses.

Of course, this is all happening in Ramadan as people are fasting and

And everyone who spoke to said they were exhausted, that the scene is being repeated again.

All right.

So if Gulf Arab states continue to get hit, they have said that they reserve the right to strike back to defend their national security.

So that could happen.

And that would obviously widen the scope of this war dramatically.

Also, we've heard the UK, France and Germany saying they will take steps to defend their interests and those of their allies in the region.

And some of those interests are about oil.

Saudi Arabia says one of its largest oil refineries was targeted today by Iranian drones sparking a fire and temporarily shutting down production there.

We've already seen oil prices spiking today on trading.

The Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf, that narrow shipping lane where a fifth of the world's oil passes from the Gulf to China and India and beyond, has effectively been shut down since Saturday.

Shipping insurance firms are concerned about naval attacks.

So the scale of the fallout of this war really depends on how long the U.S.

and Israel continue this war.

Thank you, A.

The school in the southwestern city of Manab was struck early Saturday as students across Iran were just starting the school week.

killing more than half the students there and wounding nearly 100 others who were rushed to hospital.

Erna, Iran's state news agency, quoted a spokesman for the education ministry, saying Israel had bombed the school three times.

He says there were more than 260 students in the school at the time.