The Israel Defense Forces issued their first evacuation order for downtown Beirut today ahead of airstrikes, along with a sweeping new evacuation order across southern Lebanon.

About 10% of Lebanese territory is now under Israeli evacuation notices.

This latest war has killed nearly 700 Lebanese and displaced some 800,000, including

many Christians.

Special correspondent, Simone Fultein, reports from Beirut.

In Beirut, a Christian community from Lebanon's south mourns one of their own.

That's him.

He was a beautiful soul.

Sami Raffari was killed in an Israeli strike on Sunday in his village of Al-Mashab.

He had recently celebrated his 70th birthday. Maria is his niece.

He was watering his plants. That's it. He was watering his plants and he was murdered.

We can't find an explanation for why could this happen.

Just an innocent man who wanted to stay in his land where he grew up.

The mayor of Al-Mashab, Shadi Sayah, says there were no Hezbollah fighters in the village.

We thought that there is no reason to bomb us. And we're not threatening anyone. And you know very well that we are an innocent people, and we need to stay in our land. That's it. Al-Mashab is a Christian majority village, 70 miles south of Beirut, close to Lebanon's border with Israel. It was one of the first to be drawn into the conflict in October 23.

Back then, Hezbollah, a Shia paramilitary group, did use its surroundings to fire rockets into northern Israel,

beginning the day after the Hamas attacks on southern Israel.

The news hour visited Al-Mashab last summer after a ceasefire went into effect.

The villagers had raised funds to renovate the church.

The bakery had reopened.

Despite regular Israeli ceasefire violations,

villagers like Sami hoped they could rebuild,

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