People check the site where Israeli airstrikes hit several houses in Sir al-Gharbiyeh village south Lebanon, Sunday, March, 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
Many people in Lebanon are fleeing their homes after Hezbollah launched missiles into Israel from Lebanon in response to the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and Israel retaliated with strikes on Lebanon.
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People stand on the wreckage of destroyed houses that were hit by Israeli airstrikes in Sir al-Gharbiyeh village south Lebanon, Sunday, March, 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)Mourners gather in frontof the portraits of Hezbollah fighters who were killed by Israeli airstrikes during their funeral procession in Khreibeh village, eastern Lebanon, Sunday, March 8, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)Displaced people fleeing Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, sleep at Martyrs’ Square in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, March 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)A displaced man who fled Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, sleeps at Martyrs’ Square in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, March 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)Hanaa, 7, displaced by Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, writes in a notebook while wrapped in a blanket in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)Hezbollah members walk past a building destroyed by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)Displaced people fleeing Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, sit in traffic on a highway in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)A giant poster shows the late Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh, behind a destroyed building that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Nabatiyeh town, south Lebanon, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)Flames rise following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Thursday, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)A displaced woman fleeing Israeli airstrikes in Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh warms herself near fire on the Beirut corniche, Lebanon, Friday, March 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)Tracer rounds light the sky as people fire live rounds into the air during a televised speech by Hezbollah leader Naim Kassem in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburbs, Lebanon, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)Displaced people fleeing Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon sit on a pickup at a highway links to Beirut, in the southern port city of Sidon, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)Displaced people fleeing Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon sit in traffic at a highway links to Beirut, in the southern port city of Sidon, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)Hotel guests carry their belongings, as they leave a damaged hotel that was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Hazmieh, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday, March 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)Smoke rises following Israeli airstrikes on Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)Rescue workers carry a dead body in a plastic bag from a building that was hit by Israeli strike, in Jnah neighborhood, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)Cars sit in traffic as residents flee Israeli airstrikes in Dahiyeh, a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, early Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)Debris covers a street beside an apartment building hit by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut’s southern suburb, Lebanon, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)In this photo taken with a slow shutter speed, a Middle East Airlines plane flies over Beirut as smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes on Dahiyeh in Beirut’s southern suburbs, early Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)A girl sits in a van as displaced families fleeing Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon arrive in the southern port city of Sidon, early Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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