UN warns of refugee crisis in Lebanon
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🗓️ 5 October 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The United Nations has warned that Lebanon is facing a terrible crisis because of the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. The head of the UN refugee agency said hundreds of thousands had been made homeless. Israel has meanwhile continued its airstrikes on the Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut. We speak to Lebanon's Economy Minister, Amin Salam, and Sharone Lifschitz, the daughter of one of the hostages still inside Gaza.
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(Photo: An elderly Lebanese man walks in front of a building brought down by a recent Israeli air strike. Credit: Goktay Koraltan/BBC)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service coming to you live from London |
| 0:07.2 | I'm James Kamara Sami. One day it has hung darkly over the Middle East for almost a year now and as the first anniversary |
| 0:14.5 | of the Hamas attacks of October the seventh approaches the Israeli authorities |
| 0:19.1 | have said they are increasing security in anticipation of further possible attacks. |
| 0:24.7 | That warning was issued by the IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari during an update on Israel's |
| 0:29.6 | ground and air operation against the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah in Lebanon. |
| 0:33.8 | We are pushing Hezbollah further north. Some of the terrorists escaped and some are |
| 0:39.6 | falling in face-to-face battles with our fighters fighters since the beginning of the operation |
| 0:44.3 | our forces have eliminated on the ground and from the air about 440 terrorists |
| 0:50.0 | of which 30 were commanders of various ranks. |
| 0:54.0 | That Israeli operation continues unabated. |
| 0:58.0 | There have been airstrikes throughout the day in southern Lebanon and in the capital Beirut. |
| 1:02.0 | In the past half an hour the Israeli |
| 1:04.4 | military has again ordered residents to immediately evacuate certain |
| 1:07.6 | specific buildings in Beirut. Hezbollah for its part has continued to fire rockets into Israel targeting it says an air base near Haifa. |
| 1:17.0 | The BBC Nick Beak is in Northern Israel and he told me what he had seen during the course of the day. |
| 1:22.0 | Well, James today the Israeli... be what he had seen during the course of the day. |
| 1:23.0 | Well, James, today the Israeli military says that Hezbollah fired around 90 rockets from |
| 1:29.8 | southern Lebanon, and some of them we heard with very loud explosions nearby. Now these are |
| 1:35.5 | areas where a lot of people had been moved to from the far north border |
| 1:41.0 | communities. They were moved south some of them as long as a year ago, |
| 1:45.1 | because there was supposed to be relative safety here. And we went to a town called Carmel, |
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