CGTN’s Evangelo Sipsas joins the thousands leaving southern Lebanon in the midst of Israel’s aerial bombardment of Hezbollah targets.
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00:00Yeah well actually we're leaving as well because we were caught in that barrage of exchange
00:06of rockets between Hezbollah and Israel.
00:08Israel has been targeting southern Lebanon for quite a few hours since the early mornings
00:12of Monday with hundreds of rockets and with their airplanes over in southern Lebanon targeting
00:19hundreds of positions of Hezbollah.
00:21That's what the IDF has been saying but we experienced and we encountered actually rockets
00:25from Hezbollah fired back to northern Israel and that's where Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime
00:30Minister of Israel, has mentioned that it's going to intensify the shelling here in southern
00:36Lebanon but it will probably, as you mentioned, extend it to further up to northern parts
00:42of Lebanon like in Saida or even in Beirut.
00:45We have reports now that there has been an attack in Beirut in the area of Dahi where
00:50another attack took place on Friday.
00:52Now I'm going to turn around my camera a little bit so you guys can have a better look because
00:55we are in the car as well fleeing from the area.
00:58As you can see there's a lot of traffic here.
01:00People, thousands and thousands of people are leaving southern Lebanon.
01:04We just left the area of Tire.
01:08We were told that for our own safety it will be better if we leave the area because overnight
01:14it seems like the shelling will intensify and as both sides have been exchanging more
01:20and more rockets, more have been coming from Hezbollah as well.
01:24Israel has said that it's going to continue to respond and that it's not going to stop
01:27until it reaches every single position of Hezbollah or at least weaken them as much
01:32as they can.
01:34If we were here a few hours, we experienced the heavy shelling.
01:38Just like the thousands of people that you're seeing right now in front of us, we are also
01:43fleeing because things here in the southern part of Lebanon are intensifying and a lot
01:49of people that we have been speaking to are very worried that this can perhaps turn out
01:53to be an all-out war.