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PBS News Hour - Segments

Lebanese emergency workers risk lives to aid civilians during ongoing Israeli attacks

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The war between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah has claimed more than 1,000 Lebanese lives, including 40 emergency workers. The latest victims include two young civil defense workers killed in Nabatieh, a town the Israel Defense Forces have placed under forced evacuation orders. Special correspondent Simona Foltyn and videographer Adrian Hartrick 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

War between Israel and the Iran-backed group, Hezbollah, has claimed more than 1,000 Lebanese lives, including 40 emergency workers.

0:09.0

The latest victims were two civil defense workers who were buried today.

0:13.3

They were killed in Nabatia, a southern town within an area of Lebanon.

0:17.2

The Israeli defense forces have placed under evacuation orders.

0:20.8

The evacuation zone now extends up to the Zaharini River.

0:25.1

Special correspondent Simona Fultein and videographer Edrian Hartrick traveled to

0:29.6

Navatia for this report.

0:32.1

This is what southern Lebanon under Israeli evacuation orders looks like empty streets lined with shuttered

0:38.9

stores, bombed out buildings and burned cars. Just about the only vehicles on the road are

0:44.8

ambulances racing to save the war survivors. But they have not been spared by Israeli bombs.

0:50.7

Hossein Fakhih leads the civil defense in Nabatiyya.

0:55.8

This is the station.

0:57.1

The strike happened over there.

0:59.1

All these vehicles belong to our employees.

1:02.0

These were our living quarters that are now unusable.

1:04.9

On March 17th, an Israeli strike hit a building just 10 yards from the civil defense.

1:10.1

Twelve emergency workers were

1:11.6

injured. It happened three days after the IDF said that ambulances were used by Hezbollah

1:16.6

for military purposes, a claim for which it provided no evidence.

1:21.6

We were surprised because we are the civil defense. We are supposed to be guaranteed civilian protection.

1:29.3

The Lebanese civil defense is a public emergency service that operates under the Lebanese state.

1:35.3

They rescue people from underneath the rubble and put out fires caused by bombardment.

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