'A sense of anticipation': People in south Lebanon ready for possible escalation

While residents in the south of Lebanon are being advised to evacuate, most have chosen to remain. 

"Life is normal. I don't know anyone who has left their village in the past two days because of the recent events. Of course, some people in the south were urged by their families in Beirut to leave, but they have refused to do so," one resident of Bint Jbeil, a town in Lebanon's south, told MEE.

"There is a sense of anticipation in the south, but markets and shops are open, and people are on the streets going about their day as usual. I can't say if there has been mobilisation near the border, but there haven't been any mobilisations in the villages, neither before nor after the attack on Israel."