At least 2,000 Americans were evacuated from Beirut Thursday, the largest single-day total so far. Evacuees have begun arriving in the US. On Thursday, more than 160 people landed in Baltimore. Tarek Dika, a resident of Michigan, talked about what he left behind.

• Tarek Dika: “It’s high time that people in the United States wake up to what Israel is doing in Lebanon and what Israeli is doing in the Gaza strip. They are killing civilians. They are blowing up civilian infrastructure. They are bombing airports. They are bombing bridges. They are bombing roads, they are hitting families in vans.”