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Today, a return to Lebanon, a few months since the war that changed everything.

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Thank you. To your left.

All my life I've studied in a school here in the airport road.

So when I came here, I wanted to cover the hits that happened.

It was like a zombie apocalypse.

There was no one on the streets.

There was a lot of smoke. You couldn't breathe. Literally, like, my long stop working and, like,

they hit weapon depots as well. So the type of smoke that was covering this whole area was unbearable.

A couple of weeks ago, I was in a car with Hassan Harfush, a Lebanese journalist.

By the way, I can just see this. There's a massive crater in the middle of the ground,

just on the road to the airport. He was driving me through Dahlia, the southern suburbs of

Beirut, where he lives, an area that alongside Gaza has suffered one of the most intense

aerial bombing campaigns of this century.

Hassan lived through it.

Was you ever there when your neighborhood was being bombed?

Yes, one time I was there and they headed building next to me.

What was that like?

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