‘We don’t know what will happen next’published at 21:54 British Summer Time21:54 BSTNafiseh KohnavardBBC Persian Middle East correspondent, in BeirutWe’re in front of one of the schools in Beirut that has been receiving displaced people from the south.It’s pretty crowded. Cars are arriving one after another, most of them packed with women and children.“It’s a tough day. This is the first wave of people and we expect more as people are still stuck on the roads,” Dr Rami Najem, a volunteer in charge of accommodating people at this school, tells me. According to Dr Rami, they have already received about 600 people since this afternoon “but definitely the number will go higher”.Roads from the south towards Beirut are blocked by traffic jamming as thousands left their homes in panic. Dr Rami says since 8 October – the day that the exchange of fire between Hezbollah and Israeli army started on the Lebanon-Israel border – there were some emergency planes drafted by the…
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