00:00Hello to you, Rawad.
00:01Take us through some of the latest strikes, especially what's been happening in the south.
00:08So over the past 48 to 72 hours, it's been very calm here in Beirut and in Beirut's southern
00:16suburbs as well.
00:17But it's been very intense in other parts of the country.
00:21So we've seen airstrikes in southern Lebanon and also outside of southern Lebanon, a number
00:27of airstrikes in Mount Lebanon in different areas.
00:30The first is in Giyeh, a coastal town south of Beirut.
00:36The second one is in Kisirwen district that's north of Beirut.
00:40And a third airstrike, and for the first time, in northern Lebanon, in the district of Bethlehem.
00:46Overnight we've seen intense bombardment, especially targeting the city of Nabatiyah
00:53and its city center.
00:56A significant number of buildings in the city center of the town of Nabatiyah were completely
01:02destroyed.
01:04It's a very commercial area, a lot of shops there, a lot of where economic activity takes
01:11place.
01:12It's the center of economic activity in the south.
01:14That was severely damaged overnight, as well as reported clashes ongoing between Hezbollah
01:20and Israel in the border area near, toward the southern eastern end of the border.
01:26Yet, it is not clear who has operational control over a territory.
01:32Significant clashes overnight in southern Lebanon at the border.
01:34Yeah, so residential districts hit, business districts hit, a mosque hit.
01:39This Sunday, the Red Cross says a strike had injured paramedics on a rescue mission in
01:44south Lebanon.
01:46What is the humanitarian situation like in Lebanon at the moment?
01:52So the main humanitarian question at first is regarding those internally displaced.
01:57So the estimated number of those who are internally displaced is above 1.2 million.
02:02So those are the people who left the southern part of Lebanon, as well as Beirut's southern
02:07suburbs.
02:08That's around a quarter of Lebanon's population has been internally displaced.
02:14200,000 of these internally displaced are living in dire situation in evacuation centers
02:22provided for by the Lebanese government across public schools and different parts of the
02:27country, which are considered to be safer.
02:29Other people have managed their own way out of this crisis, be it through staying with
02:34friends, family, renting hotels and apartments.
02:37But this is a crisis in the making.
02:40The school year hasn't started, as all those who evacuated, the kids who evacuated their
02:47areas can't go back to their own schools.
02:50While the schools in different parts of the country are being used as evacuation centers,
02:55most importantly are all the public schools in the country are now open as evacuation
03:00centers.
03:01So no start of the school year whatsoever.
03:04Only a number of private schools operating in the safest area in a hybrid mode of education.
03:09So that's another crisis by itself.
03:11No normal start for the school year.
03:14Hospitals across southern Lebanon have completely shut down, especially those located south
03:19of the Litani River, while the health care sector has been burdened ever since the Pedros
03:23attack roughly a month ago.
03:25So this is a humanitarian crisis in the making if this war persists any longer.
03:31All right, Rawad.
03:32Thank you very much.
03:33Rawad Taha reporting from Beirut.
Comments