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00:00Well, it's been another day of military action across the border back and forth between Israel
00:06and Hezbollah while and before these strikes on Iran by Israel were ongoing.
00:14So you have the Israeli military reporting that Hezbollah has fired some 80 projectiles
00:21across the border into Israel.
00:23Hezbollah acknowledges firing salvos of rocket communities there in the north of Israel.
00:29Meanwhile, early this morning, Israel says it carried out some controlled explosions
00:35on what it says were Hezbollah weapons caches in a village in southern Lebanon.
00:41And that set off huge explosions there, which actually triggered some earthquake monitors
00:46inside Israel, which erroneously recorded that as an earthquake.
00:50But it was, in fact, the size of those explosions there in southern Israel.
00:54So that very much continuing ongoing here.
00:58In terms of reaction to Israel's strikes on Iran, Lebanon's Ministry of Foreign Affairs
01:07condemned that early morning round of airstrikes by Israel, saying that it was a violation
01:13of Iran's sovereignty and saying that it was a serious threat, again, to regional peace
01:18and security.
01:19And they've once again called for the U.N. Security Council to step in and try and end
01:23this conflict, of course, with Israeli troops on the ground inside southern Israel and carrying
01:29out daily and nightly raids against targets in Lebanon, which they say are Hezbollah targets.
01:36And following those Israeli strikes, how are the Lebanese people reacting and coping?
01:43I think, you know, this we knew that these Israeli reaction to Iran was coming.
01:47It was just a question of when.
01:49Clearly, people in Lebanon from all walks of life, from all across the political spectrum,
01:53from all communities were bracing themselves for that.
01:56And now they're bracing themselves for any future potential fallout.
02:00Well, of course, they've got an ongoing conflict in their country, which has been going on,
02:05I mean, not only fire, firing back across the border for the past year, but now actually
02:10a ground offensive, which has been going on for four weeks now.
02:15We've seen a huge influx of refugees from the south, from the Bekaa Valley, from other
02:20areas where people feel they're at danger.
02:23And so, you know, that is putting a strain on Lebanese society in terms of the health
02:28care system, in terms of humanitarian aid, and even it's aggravating some perhaps preexisting
02:34tensions in communities and the very delicate balance of communities living here together
02:39with this huge influx of people, mainly from the sheer south of the country.
02:44A lot of people here are very, very tired of conflict and want to try and improve the
02:48situation in their country and get peace and stability at long last, because, of course,
02:52after decades of civil war in the 1980s and then political instability, a financial crisis,
02:59that huge port explosion in 2020, and now this war flaring up again, people have had
03:05enough and are very, very tired and want to kind of see a more safer and peaceful balance
03:11in their country that's sustainable.