War at the doorstep: Everyday life in southern Lebanon
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Farmers forced to leave their fields, children out of school, and white phosphorus devastating lives – all this hangs over life in southern Lebanon, where the ongoing threat of escalating tensions between Israel and Hezbollah has been a constant presence for decades. How do residents continue to cope with these challenges?
In this episode:
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Sara Salman (@sara_salman), AJ+ Journalist
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by Tamara Khandaker, Ashish Malhotra, and Sonia Bhagat, with Manahil Naveed, Veronique Eshaya and our host Malika Bilal.
Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Joe Plourde mixed this episode. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Aya Elmileik. Munera Al Dosari and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.
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| 0:00.0 | Al Jazeera Podcasts. |
| 0:07.0 | Today, living under the bombs in Lebanon, with a new round of ceasefire talks up in the air, |
| 0:18.0 | and threats of a regional war after Israel's killing of a Hezbollah commander, |
| 0:23.1 | people in southern Lebanon are once again caught in the middle. |
| 0:27.3 | And so every day is a struggle. |
| 0:29.5 | They don't know what tomorrow has in store for them. |
| 0:32.1 | It's an extremely stressful situation. |
| 0:36.3 | I'm Malika Bilal, and this is the take. |
| 0:46.4 | I'm Sarah Salman. I'm Lebanese, but I'm based in Washington, D.C., and I'm a journalist |
| 0:51.7 | at the AJ Plus, and I'm here to talk about what's been happening in |
| 0:56.2 | southern Lebanon. Sada, welcome to the take. It's really good to have you here. You have been |
| 1:01.6 | reporting on southern Lebanon, just to the north of Israel. I'm curious how living in this kind of |
| 1:08.2 | uncertainty under this constant threat of war impacts people. |
| 1:12.9 | Do people prepare for these moments or has it become a part of daily life over time? |
| 1:20.3 | You know, Israel has a long history of attacking Lebanon and southern Lebanon. |
| 1:26.2 | And so people are traumatized and they carry that trauma |
| 1:30.3 | through other lives. They're really used to that constant threat that exists. Now in October, |
| 1:36.3 | people did try to leave the South at the beginning, thinking that it's just going to last for a day |
| 1:42.2 | or two. But by now, 10 months later, the bombardment |
| 1:45.4 | has intensified. There are white phosphorus attacks. And since October, you have at least 95,000 |
| 1:52.1 | people who have been displaced. And the people who are paying the heaviest price are those who |
| 1:56.9 | are living, or at least we're living in border towns because right now they have been displaced. |
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