Lauren Frayer

The Israeli defense minister, Israel Katz, has used those words.

And we've all seen pictures of what Gaza looks like right now.

The model is raising villages, destroying villages to prevent militants from ever embedding in those villages again.

Some people in southern Lebanon have heeded the call, Israel's order, to flee those areas, but some have not.

There is a soccer stadium in the southern part of Beirut that's filled with tents.

NGOs and charities have set up tents like in sort of where the refreshment area would be, like underneath the stadium stands.

And there are people huddled in their families who have fled north to the capital from the southern part of Lebanon that's been hardest hit by Israeli bombardment.

People in southern Lebanon are living through a war within a war.

The war is, of course, the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran.

The war within Lebanon started with a series of strikes by the militant group Hezbollah.

They launched rockets and drones from Lebanon into Israel, and Israel has responded with strikes in Lebanon.

And with that, a conflict that has flared on and off for decades reignited.

NPR met one man evacuating his home in a Beirut suburb during this round of strikes.

He said he and his family were forced to flee during the last round of fighting just two years ago.

The Lebanese health ministry...

says some 1,200 people have been killed by this latest war.

Now Israel is mounting a widening invasion and ordering residents to leave.

Nearly one million people have been displaced inside the country.

The goal, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is to finally thwart the threat of invasion.

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