This is The Guardian.
Instantly I knew that we were at war again.
And people were just displaced in the streets,
lying there, some on thin mattresses, some with nothing.
Hezbollah joining in is just one more actor that's joining in and one more step towards a fully regional war.
It feels very like World War I, Bismarckian system of alliances, right?
The danger with that is you send a missile to the wrong place at the wrong time,
cross a red line, didn't do existed.
Things get bad very quickly.
The war on Iran spreads across the Middle East as Israel sends ground troops into the south of Lebanon.
From the Guardians to Dame Focus, this is the latest with me, Noshin Iqbal.
Joining me today is Will Christou, our reporter based in Beirut.
Will, thank you so much for joining us today.
Now, you're speaking to us from Beirut, the capital of Lebanon,
which has been under serious bombardment from Israeli military strikes
since the early hours of Monday morning.
Now, Israel has sent ground troops into southern Lebanon,
but I wonder if you could just give me a sense of what it's like where you are right now,
because you can quite literally hear the strikes, right?
Yeah, the first indication that the war had started was a series of explosions at like 3 a.m.