Hussein, 45, told The Independent that that he and his wife Hiam, 41 packed all their belongings at the shelter that had been staying in in the Hamra neighbourhood of Beirut, and started the normally two-hour journey to the in a area south of he city of Tyre.

BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli warplanes struck central Beirut and the city’s southern suburbs on Tuesday, raising smoke over the Lebanese capital ahead of a planned vote by Israel’s leadership on whether to accept a U.S.-brokered ceasefire aimed at ending more than a year of fighting with Hezbollah militants.

The ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon began on Wednesday morning, a day after Israel carried out its most intense wave of airstrikes in Beirut since the start of the conflict, killing at least 42 people across the country.