00:00The neighbourhood where I am now, we heard an explosion about two hours ago.
00:04We're about a kilometre away.
00:05And the impact of that explosion, you can see on the seventh floor of this building,
00:10Julie Dongolov, my colleague from France 24's French Channel, is filming for you there.
00:14A very targeted strike on that building.
00:18But this is a dense residential area, and so the building opposite also suffered some damage.
00:24Now, we saw one person injured, and we saw the corpse of another person being taken out,
00:30covered in a carpet and taken away in an ambulance.
00:35I've been speaking to a local here, a man who said he was at work when he heard the explosion.
00:40He came rushing home because his wife and three young children were at home.
00:44He was absolutely terrified because he lives 20 metres away from this building.
00:49Thankfully, everyone was OK, but he told me they really have nowhere else to go.
00:53We have seen people leaving in the last hour with their suitcases, whole families leaving this area.
00:59Because this neighbourhood has been struck before.
01:01This is not the first strike.
01:03We understand this is the third of the day, the one that created that impact on that building.
01:08And the gentleman I spoke to said to me, they really have nowhere else to go.
01:12But also, more importantly for him, he was saying, he would rather die with his family in his own home
01:18than go anywhere else and not know what their future could be.
01:22We know there are many displaced people in Lebanon at the moment.
01:26There are tents all over the city of Beirut.
01:28There are tents inside on that city further to the south where I was yesterday.
01:33There were over a million displaced people here in Lebanon.
01:36And the gentleman I was speaking to said to me,
01:38he would rather stay here despite the risks.
01:40because at least one.
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