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PBS News Hour - Segments

Civilians caught in path of Israeli invasion in southern Lebanon

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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On Easter Sunday, Israel carried out a fresh wave of airstrikes on Lebanon. The city of Tyre, like much of Lebanon's south, has been placed under forced evacuation orders by the Israeli army. Special correspondent Simona Foltyn and videographer Adrian Hartrick traveled to Tyre and report. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

On Easter Sunday, Israel carried out a fresh wave of airstrikes on Lebanon's capital,

0:05.5

Beirut.

0:06.6

At least 11 people were killed across the country that day with dozens more injured.

0:11.5

Israel says it's targeting the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.

0:15.4

The total death toll in Lebanon has reportedly now exceeded 1,500.

0:20.2

The southern city of Tyre also came under Israeli fire

0:23.7

on Sunday. Tire, like much of Lebanon's south, has been placed under forced evacuation orders

0:29.2

by the Israeli army. Special correspondent Simon Fultene and videographer Adrian Hartrick

0:34.6

traveled to Tyre and have this report. Sixtyyear-old Mirbat Arnaud is living through Israel's fifth war with Lebanon, but this is the closest it has felt to home.

0:46.3

At 8 in the morning, our neighbors woke us up, we got up, still dressed in our pajamas, and we left the house. We went down to the

0:55.2

seaside. Then the strike came at 2.10 p.m. You see the clock has stood still since then.

1:02.3

This is the airstrike on Tyre's old city that hit the building next to Mirwats. The blast was so

1:08.0

powerful it blew a hole into her kitchen and bedroom.

1:11.7

When she came back home, she found pieces of shrapnel among her broken furniture.

1:16.2

We are shocked.

1:20.9

We don't know what to do.

1:22.1

We are so tired, especially us, those suffering from sickness.

1:26.2

We are exhausted.

1:27.4

We can't sleep because of the sound of

1:29.0

the warplanes. In a statement to the news hour, the IDF said it was targeting a Hezbollah

1:33.8

weapons storage facility, but this was a residential building. Mirvat knows the two families

1:39.2

who live there and says neither had links with the Shia militant group.

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