Click to play videoLebanon: Residents in southern Lebanon are desperately trying to get out of harm's way.
The residents of Aitaroun are leaving as fast as they can. The end of Israel's forty-eight hours of relative restraint is over. After nearly three weeks in cramped shelters, everybody seems desperate to go.
“Get us out of here, please get us out here,” says a woman.
The people in the town have been under bombardment for twenty days. The Red Cross hasn't made it here. The UN hasn't made it here.
Everyone is fleeing, but for one man, dazed, who stares at the rubble of his village.
The neighbouring village of Ainata has also been pounded. Unexploded 155 mm artillery round lies in the main square.
The stench of decomposing bodies rises from the ruins. Taghrib Kharraf, a villager, says she and her son were pinned down in their house for five days with the body of her dead sister, killed in the bombing.
Abbas khalil, another villager, came to get his sister and found her dead under the rubble of her home.
It was unbearable, unbearable, is all Ahmed Bassam, a villager, can say. He is going straight to Beirut. Everyone here painfully aware there is little time left.
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