Lauren Frayer
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Here's what it sounded like at a school converted into a shelter for the displaced.
And that's the principal of the school, Colette Slim, describing these waves and waves of people fleeing northward.
Her school is now full.
You could hear children playing in the yard there.
And she's now forced to turn people away.
It's worth looking at a map to understand the geography of this.
First, last week, Israeli officials said they would take Lebanese territory up to the Latani River.
That's a river that runs east-west, about 10 to 20 miles north of the current Israel-Lebanon border.
A few days later, they ordered residents out of a zone about 10 miles beyond that, north of the Zahrani River.
And now Netanyahu's announcement about this widening invasion is creating more confusion and more fear here.
Israel says it wants to create a buffer zone where Hezbollah can no longer fire rockets across the border into northern Israel, which it is still doing by the thousands.
An Israeli soldier with U.S.
citizenship grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, is the latest Israeli killed in combat inside Lebanon.
You'll know, Leila, this is a zone that Israel occupied in the 1980s and 90s, and many Lebanese fear history is repeating itself now.
Israeli officials say in Lebanon they want to duplicate the Gaza model, and we've all seen images of the destruction in that territory.
That's right.
Ali Shaib, a veteran television correspondent, really a household name here in Lebanon, along with sibling journalists Fatima Fatouni and her cameraman brother Mohamed Fatouni.
Afterward, their father Abbas Fatouni appeared on TV.
He's saying he was proud of his children, and Israel, as you noted, says it targeted them deliberately.
And why?