Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted an area in the southern suburbs of Beirut.β€”AFP

GENEVA: Israeli strikes and mass evacuation orders have seen nearly 700,000 people flee their homes in Lebanon in just over a week, with more than 100,000 leaving in 24 hours, the UN said on Tuesday.

β€œLives have been upended on a massive scale,” said Karolina Lindholm Billing, the representative in Lebanon of UNHCR, the United Nations

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