‘We don’t know where to go’: Lebanese flee south in search of safety

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00:00Zainab savours a moment of rest, after hours on the road to escape the strikes in the south

00:06of the country.

00:07What would you like me to tell you? About our first or second trip? Because 11 months

00:14ago we had already fled our village Kfar Kala. And since then we've been in Karnoon, which

00:20we also had to leave. And now we don't know where to go.

00:28Zainab's husband stayed behind, and will try to join them later.

00:35We are going to Beirut. We don't really know where yet. We need to find a house. The main

00:40thing is that we've escaped the bombs.

00:44Night has fallen on Beirut. Zainab has finally found a place to stay in the working class

00:49district of Karmel Zeytoun, in a flat where several families from her region have already

00:54set up camp.

00:57In the village of Harouf, a family of 10 was wiped out. Civilians. There were no fighters

01:02or stocks of weapons in their homes. They're targeting civilians.

01:06I want to go home, back to my house. Even if that means going and sitting on the side

01:13of the road in front of my destroyed home.

01:17Zainab and the others are glued to the news, waiting for a lull in the fighting, and an

01:22opportunity to return to their homes.

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