Another Take: War at the doorstep in Lebanon
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Every Saturday, we revisit a story from the archives. This originally aired on August 16, 2023. None of the dates, titles, or other references from that time have been changed.
Farmers forced to leave their fields, children out of school, and white phosphorus devastating lives – all this hangs over life in southern Lebanon, where the ongoing threat of escalating tensions between Israel and Hezbollah has been a constant presence for decades. How do residents continue to cope with these challenges?
In this episode:
- Sara Salman (@sara_salman), AJ+ Journalist
Episode credits:
This episode was updated by Sarí el-Khalili. The original production team was Tamara Khandaker, Ashish Malhotra, Sonia Bhagat, Manahil Naveed, Veronique Eshaya, and our host Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Joe Plourde mixed this episode. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Adam Abou-Gad is our engagement producer.
Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer, and Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Hi, it's Saril Khalili, a senior producer with a take, and this is another take, where we bring you episodes from the archive. |
| 0:20.0 | This time it's a recent episode. |
| 0:26.6 | Israel carried out a strike on a densely populated civilian area in Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday. |
| 0:33.6 | The Israeli military called it a precise strike on what it says was the central headquarters of Hezbollah. |
| 0:41.3 | As the escalation of violence worsens, tens of thousands of people are fleeing to Beirut and other parts of the country from southern Lebanon. |
| 0:52.3 | Last month, we spoke to Sarah Salman, who reports for AJ Plus. |
| 0:58.0 | Here's that episode now. |
| 1:00.0 | But remember, none of the dates or other references have changed from August 16th when it originally aired. |
| 1:21.0 | Today, living under the bombs in Lebanon, with a new round of ceasefire talks up in the air, and threats of a regional war after Israel's killing of a Hezbollah commander, people in |
| 1:27.1 | southern Lebanon are once again caught in the middle. |
| 1:30.8 | And so every day is a struggle. |
| 1:32.9 | They don't know what tomorrow has in store for them. |
| 1:35.5 | It's an extremely stressful situation. |
| 1:39.8 | I'm Malika Bilal, and this is The Take. |
| 1:55.9 | I'm Sarah Salman. I'm Lebanese, but I'm based in Washington, D.C., and I'm a journalist at the AJ Plus, |
| 2:00.3 | and I'm here to talk about what's been happening in southern Lebanon. |
| 2:03.5 | Sara, welcome to the take. It's really good to have you here. |
| 2:08.2 | You have been reporting on southern Lebanon just to the north of Israel. |
| 2:16.3 | I'm curious how living in this kind of uncertainty under this constant threat of war impacts people. Do people prepare for these moments or has it become a part of |
| 2:20.2 | daily life over time? You know, Israel has a long history of attacking Lebanon and southern Lebanon. |
| 2:29.7 | And so people are traumatized and they carry that trauma through other lives. |
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