One million in Lebanon are now displaced. But where can they go?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 749 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
As conflict with Israel intensifies, Lebanon is in shock with more than a million people displaced after orders from Israel for ‘evacuation’. How have people relied on each other – and what do they do when there is nowhere safe to go?
In this episode:
- Sally Abou AlJoud (@JoudSally), Journalist, L'Orient Today
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Amy Walters and Sarí el-Khalili with Phillip Lanos, Duha Mosaad, Hagir Saleh, Cole van Miltenberg and our host Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editor is Hisham Abu Salah. Alexandra Locke is the Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, more than one million Lebanese are asking, where can I go that's safe? |
| 0:18.0 | What we fear is further displacement. |
| 0:21.9 | It's enough that they blew up our houses. |
| 0:24.0 | Now we're all in the streets. |
| 0:27.5 | A new Israeli incursion will mean that number keeps rising. |
| 0:31.4 | And many feel like there's nowhere left to run. |
| 0:36.5 | I'm Malika Bilal, and this is The Take. |
| 0:39.3 | My name is Sally Abuljoud. |
| 0:46.3 | I'm a Beirut-based journalist. |
| 0:50.3 | I work with a local media outlet called L'Ariant today. |
| 0:55.4 | So, Sally, we're hearing reports about a ballistic missile launch from Iran to Israel. |
| 1:02.4 | We've got breaking news upon breaking news upon breaking news this hour. |
| 1:05.3 | This is the last one coming into us just now. |
| 1:08.1 | There are also reports of explosions in Tel Aviv. |
| 1:11.6 | Two missiles have been launched from Iran into Israel. All again, all of this is live. |
| 1:18.2 | The situation keeps changing and the news only gets more grim. What goes through your mind |
| 1:24.5 | when you read these headlines? |
| 1:32.0 | Wider war, Lebanese people paying the price. |
| 1:36.2 | This is immediately what we think here when we read such headlines. Because, you know, even we saw after those reports, |
| 1:41.3 | there's really military commenting on it saying that if that happens, the price, |
| 1:48.0 | you know, people will pay the price. |
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