By EUAN WARD, PAUL SONNE, ERIKA SALOMON and ERIC SCHMITT Nearly 700,000 people have been driven from their homes in Lebanon, the United Nations said Tuesday, as Israel’s mass evacuation orders and bombing campaign transform the country into a major new front in the expanding Middle East war. Israeli airstrikes pounded Lebanon anew, sending residents fleeing for safety and prompting warnings of a growing humanitarian crisis. Bombing also continued in Iran, where a resident warned that “if they…
