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Today in Focus

After four decades, Lebanon and Israel finally talk

Today in Focus

The Guardian

Daily News, News

4.5778 Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

With the US and Iran in deadlock, could historic talks between Lebanon and Israel help steer the Middle East towards peace? William Christou reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is The Guardian.

0:08.0

Today, Israel and Lebanon have finally agreed to talk. You know, it's just a normal sunny day, beautiful day.

0:25.6

Everybody was optimistic, there's a ceasefire.

0:28.6

People are happy that there's finally something good is happening between the leaders in the world.

0:35.6

They're talking to each other. You know, this is what everybody has in mind.

0:40.1

And then boom.

0:42.9

This is Gida Faki.

0:44.9

Last week, like so many in Lebanon, waiting for that news, that yes, finally there was hope

0:50.5

that the war between the U.S, Israel and Iran might be ending.

0:55.3

She was looking forward to stability again.

0:58.1

But then Israel launched a bombing campaign in Lebanon that has been described as its

1:03.6

deadliest in decades.

1:07.5

You know, there are a lot of horrifying scenes that came out of the bombing on Wednesday.

1:12.7

One of them was the story of Naya Fakhihah.

1:16.3

You know, she's a little girl, a 13-year-old girl who is coming back from basketball practice.

1:22.4

She crazed basketball like eight, nine times a week.

1:25.8

And that day she had basketball, because now they're on Easter vacation, she had basketball. At 9 o'clock in the morning, she finished at 12, and then she had basketball again at 1 o'clock. So her dad went to pick her up. Naya was walking with her dad, and she was filming herself happy. You could see that in the video, she's actually got a dog filter on her face on Snapchat,

1:47.0

when all of a sudden a bomb dropped right in front of her.

1:55.0

And the video went from a video of a moment of levity

1:57.0

to something of a nightmare.

1:59.0

The dog filter remained on her face, but now she was screaming.

2:02.7

She took shelter in a nearby building.

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