Thousands return home as Israel-Hezbollah truce comes into force
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah is in effect in Lebanon after a deal to end 13 months of fighting. Thousands of Lebanese civilians have started returning to their homes in the south.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm Rachel Wright, and at 13 hours GMT on Wednesday the 27th in November, these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.5 | A ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon appears to be holding. |
| 0:16.0 | Displaced civilians are trying to return to their homes in southern Lebanon. |
| 0:22.2 | Also in this podcast, the ICC asks for an arrest warrant for Myanmar's military leader. |
| 0:28.1 | We will seek to show that the Rohingya have not been forgotten, |
| 0:30.9 | that they, like all people around the world, deserve and are entitled to the protection of the law. |
| 0:37.0 | Opposition supporters in Pakistan have temporarily called off days of protests. |
| 0:42.3 | The Spanish Prime Minister defends his handling of last month's deadly floods |
| 0:46.2 | and a new documentary about the Fab Four. |
| 0:54.1 | We begin this podcast in the Middle East, where a ceasefire has come into effect between Israel and Hezbollah after 13 months of fighting. |
| 1:03.0 | Under the terms, Israel has agreed to withdraw its forces from the south, while Lebanon will move its army into the border area to make sure Hasbola doesn't return. |
| 1:13.2 | More than a million Lebanese have been displaced since the fighting began, and many residential |
| 1:18.2 | areas of the capital have been largely destroyed. Ali Hazzi, a former residence of South |
| 1:24.9 | Lebanon currently in Beirut, told the BBC people are looking forward |
| 1:29.0 | to returning to their homes. |
| 1:30.9 | Today, it's a mixed feeling of sadness and joy, I would say. |
| 1:36.5 | The war has ended, but the humanitarian crisis is just unfolding a new chapter as we see hundreds of cars fleeing back to South Lebanon. |
| 1:48.6 | The majority of them want to come back, check their home and try to restore what they can. |
| 1:56.6 | And they are just excited and can't wait to come back home safe. |
| 2:03.2 | The BBC's Hugo Bershaga is outside the Lebanese city of Saigon. |
| 2:08.1 | This is the main highway between Beirut and the south of the country, |
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