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Hello, I'm Rob Young.

Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service.

In BBC conversations, we bring people together to share their experiences,

and this time we hear from people in Lebanon.

In December 2024, we made an edition of BBC conversations titled Israel Hezbollah ceasefire.

Well, fast forward to today and Lebanon citizens are again caught under fire and many are on the move

as they search for a place of safety. The Lebanese health ministry says this latest conflict has

killed more than a thousand people and displaced more than a million. Amid the wider destruction

across the Middle East, there are fears of a major humanitarian crisis.

The attacks are being carried out by Israel, which says it's targeting Hezbollah,

an Iranian-backed militia and political party.

They say their aim is to stop Hezbollah attacking communities in northern Israel.

For our first conversation, my colleague James Reynolds, brought together,

Sarah, who lives to the east of the capital Beirut,

Tasnim, who lives in Beirut, but her family is from the south of the country,

and Karim, a PhD student.

His family home in the capital has been destroyed.

We consider us as one of the lucky ones, right?

I'm a dual American citizen or a middle-class family.

We have more capacity than other people.

Despite all of that, we still face immense, immense bureaucratic challenges

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