Aya Batraoui

troops and hit the U.S.

Navy's fifth fleet in Bahrain, according to state media there.

But I also want to say that civilian areas have suffered.

You're talking about luxury hotels in Dubai and across the Gulf and seaports.

That is how this region imports the bulk of its food.

But Dubai's airport, which is the world's busiest for international transit connecting Europe to Asia and Africa, was also struck by a drone and flights there remain suspended now since Saturday.

So this war has engulfed the region.

So, you know, there was a ceasefire there for about the last 15 months, although Israel would continue to strike Hezbollah.

Hezbollah had not struck back.

However, all of that changed last night.

Israel says a few rockets and drones were launched, landing in open spaces.

Now that's in response to the Israel killing.

the supreme leader of Iran.

Now, the military ordered 50 villages in Lebanon and in southern suburbs of Beirut to be evacuated, and then airstrikes pounded those areas in Lebanon, killing more than 30 people already and wounding 150, according to Lebanon's health ministry.

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.