The Israeli military launches new attacks on Beirut, southern Lebanon as humanitarian crisis deepens.

It was not how the Rev. Maroun Ghafari had envisioned this Holy Week — for years, he had held Easter sermons in his predominantly Christian village of Alma al-Shaab in southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel.

With Israel thrusting deeper into Lebanon and threatening to seize Lebanese territory as far as the Litani, a river 20 miles north of the Israeli border, the situation of displaced people in Beirut “will be even worse than what we’re seeing now,” warned Harb, from the U.N. refugee agency.

A growing number of Shiite families displaced by the war in Lebanon say they’re being pushed out of towns where they feel unwelcome.

Two years ago, Dr. Mohammed Ziara watched Israel ravage Gaza's health care system, shelling hospitals, striking ambulances and forcing patients to evacuate. Now Ziara — along with many other medical workers,

By Raghed Waked and Maya Gebeily AIN SAADEH, Lebanon April 6 (Reuters) - An Israeli strike on an apartment east of Beirut late on Sunday killed a local official from a Christian political party, sharpening internal divides over Hezbollah as Israel's strikes expand to new parts of the country.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says a 4-year-old girl and a soldier are among seven people killed in an Israeli attack on the town of Kfar Hatta near the coastal city of Sidon. The Israeli military had called on the entire town late Saturday to evacuate. There is no immediate comment on the deaths from the IDF.

Soldiers from the IDF's 226th Brigade identified two Hezbollah terror cells in southern Lebanon, coordinating with the air force, who struck the terrorists, killing them, the military confirmed on Sunday morning. The strikes took place over the past 24 hours, the military noted.