ghost town

Sometimes the streets in the town known for cattle ranching, apple orchards and ironworking can be so quiet it feels like a ghost town.

Subsequent evacuation orders from the Israeli military extend to the center of the country, rendering more than a third of Lebanon nearly inaccessible and turning once lively cities into ghost towns.

Several told the BBC on Wednesday that the area resembled a ghost town, with rubble and debris from buildings littering the streets.

A drive through Dahieh revealed a ghost town, with a few cars and scooters racing through abandoned thoroughfares, pausing at columns of smoke rising from the bowels of attack sites before they sped off.

“The whole place was looking like a ghost town. It was abandoned,” he recalls.