Mahmoud sleeps on a blanket with his wife and 2-year-old son on a beach in Lebanon's capital, Beirut.
They are among the tens of thousands of people who have sought refuge in Beirut after fleeing Israel's devastating air raids across Lebanon.
"We came to Beirut because we thought the city would be safer," Mahmoud said. "But now we sleep here, on the beach, with nothing."
Mahmoud and his family fled the town of Ghaziyeh in southern Lebanon, one of the worst-hit areas, after Israeli air strikes damaged their home. After boarding a packed bus with only three backpacks, they arrived in Beirut after a 20-hour journey through traffic-choked roads.
Israel's ground invasion of southern Lebanon and its ongoing air strikes targeting Hezbollah, the Iran-backed armed group and political party that controls much of southern Lebanon, has taken a huge toll on civilians.
Lebanese officials say more than 1,100 people have been killed since Israel launched its aerial bombardment on September 23. Around 1.2 million people have been displaced, a fifth of the population, in the biggest displacement in the country's history.
In Beirut, schools, universities, mosques, and even soccer stadiums have been converted to shelters for the displaced. Even then, thousands have nowhere to go and are sleeping on beaches, in parks and squares, or in their cars.
Mahmoud and his family have spent the last four days at Beirut's El Manara beach. They have been surviving on food donations from locals.
"We don't know what to do," Mahmoud said. "All the shelters are full."
The family fear that soon they may be forced to relocate again. Beirut, a densely populated city of some 2.5 million, has been the scene of deadly Israeli air raids that have left parts of it in ruins.
"We are terrified," Mahmoud said. "Every day the bombs drop closer. But we don't know where to go next."
Displaced children sleep on the sidewalk in downtown Beirut.
Brewing Humanitarian Crisis
Lebanon's caretaker government, overwhelmed by the scale of the displacement in the country, is already struggling to help everyone in need. Shelters have been overwhelmed, despite the local authorities converting some 500 schools into temporary lodgings.
The World Food Program has launched an emergency operation to provide food for the over 1 million people affected by Israel's escalating offensive in Lebanon.
The organization, which warned that Lebanon was at "breaking point," said it was distributing meals and cash to shelters across the country.
Israel on October 1 launched a ground invasion of southern Lebanon, a move that is likely to aggravate the brewing humanitarian crisis in the Middle Eastern country.
Soon after Israeli forces crossed the border for the first time since the Israeli-Hezbollah war in 2006, the Israeli military ordered the evacuation of dozens of communities in southern Lebanon.
'Nobody Feels Safe'
Even in Beirut, thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes as Israeli warplanes pound parts of the city, the third-largest in the Middle East.
Among them is Mariya, a bank employee, who has already moved twice within the city.
"Last week, me, my mum, and sister left our apartment after an air strike struck just two streets away," said the 27-year-old, who lived in the Msaytbeh neighborhood in central Beirut. "We are now staying with relatives in another part of the city. But nobody feels safe."
The city's southern suburbs are a stronghold of Hezbollah, a U.S. -designated terrorist group, although the EU has only blacklisted its armed wing.
Made up of blocks of residential apartment buildings, the area has been pummeled by Israeli air strikes. Resembling a ghost town, south Beirut is largely empty and the scene of bombed-out buildings and rubble-strewn streets.
Mariya says she has witnessed some displaced people in Beirut breaking into hotels and empty buildings as they desperately try to find shelter.
"We can't switch off the lights in our apartment because someone might try to break in," she said. "There is chaos in Beirut. "There is no order. People don't know what will come next."
People who fled Israeli bombardment in Beirut's southern suburbs gather in the Lebanese capital's downtown district, where they spent the night.
'This Is Different'
Manal, a mother of two, has yet to relocate from her apartment in the neighborhood of Bourj Abi Haidar in central Beirut.
But she fears that it is just a matter of time before she is forced to flee.
"We pack our bags every night, just in case," said the 40-year-old chemist. "The sound of the bombs is constant. It feels like the earth is shaking beneath our feet."
Manal said some of her friends and relatives have fled to the mountains above Beirut to seek safety. "But even there, they say the bombs are following them," she said.
Manal witnessed the Israeli-Hezbollah war in 2006, which was triggered by the Lebanese group's kidnapping of two Israeli soldiers.
During the 34-day conflict, massive Israel air raids targeting Hezbollah and civilian infrastructure killed over 1,100 people in Lebanon.
"I've lived through wars before, but this is different," Manal said. "There is no safe place. The entire country is under siege."