Hundreds of families displaced from Beirut's southern suburbs after the area was pummeled overnight by the heaviest Israeli airstrikes in nearly a year of limited conflict are sleeping in public squares and beaches or in their cars in the city center.

Gaza Thousands of residents of the southern Beirut suburb of Dahieh were forced to spend the night out in the open – in parks and parking lots, on the pavements of major thoroughfares, on the seaside corniche,