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Today, Explained

What’s going on in Lebanon

Today, Explained

Vox

News, Daily News, Politics

4.310.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

A chemical blast has made a very bad situation worse for Lebanon. Journalist Habib Battah explains from Beirut. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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My name is Hebibata. I'm a journalist living and working in Beirut.

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On Tuesday afternoon, I was driving home, passing by the port of Beirut,

0:37.0

as I have done so many times before.

0:39.0

There was a bit of traffic, and I had pulled over about four or five kilometers after the port on the highway,

0:47.0

and went to a pharmacy to buy some medicine.

0:51.0

When I was talking to the pharmacist, I heard a...

0:56.0

I was like a pop-noise.

0:58.0

And I immediately had...

0:59.0

When I heard it, I looked to the skies, because I thought that it could be another air strike.

1:04.0

You know, we've been through so many air strikes in this country.

1:07.0

We've been hit with so many tons of bombs that I thought it was coming from the air.

1:11.0

And then, you know, I didn't see anything, so I turned around.

1:14.0

That was the initial explosion, and then...

1:19.0

The much bigger mushroom cloud happened just within 10 seconds or so after that.

1:25.0

My whole body shook, and it really rattled me to my bones.

1:31.0

It's hard to really describe what it's like.

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It's kind of like if you were trying to imagine the biggest explosion in an action movie,

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