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Today in Focus

Lebanon: a fragile ceasefire in a shattered nation

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.7K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

After two months of total war and terrible destruction, an uneasy peace has fallen on Lebanon. Will Christou reports. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

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0:09.0

Today, an uneasy truce in Lebanon and a chance to assess the damage from two months of total war.

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0:54.1

Before we start, this episode includes descriptions of violence that some listeners might find upsetting.

1:04.2

This week, after more than a year of fighting and an intense two-month all-out war.

1:17.9

Tens of thousands of Lebanese people forced by the fighting to run, finally went home.

1:21.4

Going home is the nicest feeling.

1:23.5

We're returning with our heads held high.

1:25.1

We're returning with dignity.

1:38.3

Hesbila and Israel had reached a ceasefire, a fragile one that's already been breached a few times.

1:46.3

Israel's launched two airstrikes in Lebanon in just the past hour, which appears to be a resumption of hostilities, despite the ceasefire.

1:49.0

Nearly 4,000 Lebanese people have been killed in the past year.

1:54.7

More than a million have been displaced, and the most powerful armed group in the country

2:00.0

brought to its knees.

2:02.6

When Hezbollah entered the fight with Israel, it said that it would never stop until a ceasefire in Gaza was achieved.

2:10.3

On Tuesday, they quietly dropped any idea of achieving a ceasefire in Gaza in return for peace in southern Lebanon.

2:19.0

Hezbollah is calling this war the bloodiest one they've ever fought with Israel a victory.

2:25.2

But Will Christo, who covers Lebanon for the Guardian, has spent the past two days driving through

2:30.9

southern Lebanon. And he says, for people returning to what remains of their homes,

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