School year starts in Lebanon amid Israeli strikes

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00:00It's a school like almost a thousand others in Lebanon.

00:03Naromen is its headmistress.

00:06It opened its doors to house those who have been forced onto the streets.

00:09In Lebanon, one in four people have fled their homes.

00:13This room used to be the staff room and as we have refugees in the other rooms, we're

00:17going to equip the whole room with tables and chairs so that our pupils can study.

00:22We've already put up the blackboard.

00:25Staff are doing what they can to save the school year.

00:28Here, around 60 nursery school children will be living with around 50 refugees.

00:33They'll be on separate floors.

00:36Not everyone may be lucky enough to get a teacher.

00:39We don't know what we're going to do for our children because their school is in their

00:43village.

00:44And my daughter is at university in the south.

00:47We can't seem to communicate with the people in charge.

00:59My grandfather was at home and they fired a missile into our village.

01:08Tomorrow we'll go home.

01:11They come from areas in southern Lebanon.

01:16I'd like to go home, play with my friends and see each other again.

01:23And for us to give each other hugs too.

01:28And we'll tell them that we've missed them.

01:30We love each other very much.

01:34We have a lot of fun together.

01:39But the prospect of returning to how life was before seems like a distant reality, as

01:44the IDF presses ahead with its offensive and the death toll from Israeli strikes on Lebanon

01:49continues to mount.

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