16:37 GMT
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The rubble of a damaged building after an Israeli strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs
We’ve got correspondents across the Middle East as this war unfolds – here’s a quick recap of their latest reporting.
Lebanon
Alice Cuddy is in Beirut, where huge queues of traffic have been piling up as residents flee after Israel warned people to immediately leave their homes.
In Lebanon’s capital people are scouring through the wreckage of a residential buildings damaged by strikes.
“We moved away on Monday because of fears that something would happen. Today we were supposed to come for a shower and to pick up our stuff and we found this,” one resident told Alice next to the wreckage. “Thank god it was just our things and not us.”
Qatar
Barbara Plett Usher heard the rumble and bang of anti-aircraft fire above Doha earlier today. Alerts buzzed on phones as the security threat was elevated.
She said it’s clear that Qataris don’t want to take any chances as the threat of strikes in the region persist.
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A plume of smoke rises over buildings in Doha
Israel
Yolande Knell earlier said Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport reopened after it was shut down five days ago. She reported that the first repatriation flight from Athens landed at the airport this morning bringing home Israelis who were stranded abroad.
Northern Iraq
Orla Guerin has said Kurdish Iranian opposition parties have roundly denied reports that some of their forces have crossed the border into Iran.
Hanna Hussein Yazdan Pana, of the Kurdistan Freedom Party told Orla: “This is not true. Do not believe it, not a single Peshmerga (fighter) has moved. No one moves alone.”
They called for a no-fly zone to provide protection for Kurdish forces. “The regime is very brutal,” she says, “and the most advanced weapon we have is a Kalashnikov.”