00:00An emotional embrace between a father and a daughter, something Bilal Nasser feared
00:08he'd never be able to do again.
00:10A lot of buildings, like a building with 32 units full of people, they are falling down.
00:15I mean, imagine, you see that, it's really very bad and I was very infected to see and
00:21hear what's going on.
00:23That uncertainty, to a rush of relief, is being felt across the country, with hundreds
00:30of Australians returning home from the first repatriation flights out of Lebanon.
00:35It was the scariest ride that one can have, because you never know when the bomb will
00:41fall on your head.
00:43Travelling for work, Mr Nasser became trapped just south of Beirut.
00:47He filmed this video before he left, unaware it was the Israeli airstrike which killed
00:52Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
00:55I was about 500 metres away from that bomb and there's 80 tonnes of rockets hit that
01:03place on one time.
01:06The federal government eventually organised his evacuation.
01:10The day I evacuated, they hit the area where I was living as well.
01:15More than 4,000 Australians and their families have now registered to leave Lebanon, but
01:20with the region becoming more unstable by the day, the government warns that future
01:25flights home can't be guaranteed.
01:28While there's still hope for the thousands of residents who remain there, the same can't
01:32be said for those they leave behind.
01:35I feel very sad for them, you know, all my friends and all my people in Lebanon as well,
01:40all the people in Lebanon, and that's why I request our government to do something to
01:47stop, to cease fire in the Middle East.
01:51A plea being echoed across Australia's Lebanese community.
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