What's next for the war in Lebanon?
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Israel renewed and intensified its bombardment of Beirut’s suburbs this week, assassinating Mohamed Afif, Hezbollah’s chief spokesman, on Sunday. As ceasefire negotiations continue, is this an escalation in violence that might precede a diplomatic breakthrough – or just an escalation?
In this episode:
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Maya Gebeilly (@GebeilyM), Reuters Bureau Chief for Lebanon, Syria & Jordan
Episode credits:
This episode was produced by David Enders and Chloe K. Li, with Duha Mosaad, Hagir Saleh, Cole van Miltenburg, and our host, Kevin Hirten. It was edited by Alexandra Locke.
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, what's next for the war in Lebanon? |
| 0:15.5 | We're moving now into possibly targeting a string of political representatives of Hezbollah. |
| 0:22.3 | We're already in a case where we're seeing repeated violations of international law every day. |
| 0:27.0 | Is this an escalation ahead of a ceasefire or just an escalation? |
| 0:33.8 | I'm Kevin Horton and this is the take. |
| 0:42.9 | Thank you. I'm Kevin Hurtin, and this is The Take. My name is Maya Jbeid. I'm based in Beir, Lebanon, and I am the Reuters Bureau Chief for Lebanon, |
| 0:48.9 | Syria, and Jordan. So how long have you been with Reuters? I've been in this role for two |
| 0:54.1 | and a half years. |
| 0:55.0 | Prior to this, I had a year where I was not doing news. |
| 0:57.7 | So I was just focused on tech, the climate and the economy. |
| 1:00.8 | And then I had the itch to go back to breaking news, |
| 1:03.5 | which brought me back to the file about two and a half years ago. |
| 1:07.1 | The itch for breaking news. |
| 1:08.4 | Are you regretting having that itch at this point? |
| 1:10.8 | Just a little bit. Just a little bit. Yeah. |
| 1:16.1 | So, Maya, the big news of the day is that Israel has assassinated Hezbollah's long-time spokesperson in an air strike in central Beirut. |
| 1:25.0 | Breaking news out of Beirut, where Hezbollah's media relations chief has been killed in an airstrike in central Beirut. Breaking news out of Beirut, where as well as media relations chief, has been killed |
| 1:29.3 | in an airstrike in central Beirut. |
| 1:31.3 | Muhammad Afif was killed in the Israeli raid. |
| 1:34.3 | The district of Ruslan Nabar in central Beirut was targeted without warning. |
| 1:38.3 | Now, this happened right downtown, near where you are located. |
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