With one text message, Israel made half a million people homeless, leaving the city’s southern suburbs a ghost town

The evacuation order gave residents of the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs just hours to leave their homes.

Traffic became gridlocked as families fled southern Lebanon after Israel's military issued a notice ordering all of Beirut's southern suburbs to evacuate. Vehicles were captured…

With one text message, Israel made half a million people homeless, leaving the city’s southern suburbs a ghost town