More than 1.2 million people, a fifth of Lebanon’s entire population, have been forced from their homes in less than a month, and among them are 350,000 children. One in every five people in Lebanon has fled their home since this escalation began. They have left with nothing. They sleep in schools, in shelters, in the streets. A 20-year-old woman named Wafaa, displaced from eastern Lebanon with her four family members, told Save the Children: ‘I want to achieve my dreams. I want to live in Lebanon and grow up like all children and young people around the world without war.’ Her dream is not radical. It is the baseline of human existence, and it is being systematically demolished.

Watch: Israel is wiping out critical bridge after critical bridge in South Lebanon. Civilians can’t flee. Ambulances can’t reach the wounded.

In the past 72 hours alone, Israel has killed at least four journalists in southern Lebanon, and this too is not collateral damage. It is a pattern. On Saturday, an Israeli airstrike hit a car in the town of Jezzine carrying four people, all of whom died, among them Ali Shoaib, a correspondent for Al-Manar, Fatima Ftouni, a reporter for Al-Mayadeen, and her brother Mohammad Ftouni, a cameraman.