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00:00Well earlier on today I was inside and witnessed first start as a blast quite
00:05close to the place we were we were inside a building speaking with
00:08officials and we just saw the doors move and we heard a large bang and that was
00:14indeed an Israeli outstrike just a few kilometers away in a neighborhood of the
00:19city we came outside and saw a very large plume of smoke go up over the city
00:26then as we were leaving this meeting well we got caught in a huge traffic jam
00:32it was the people fleeing the south fleeing the Israeli airstrikes so we
00:37were able to speak to some of them people with packed cars with as much of
00:42their belongings they could manage to take with them but indeed who were
00:46telling us one person was telling us that the strikes started in their
00:51village at 6 a.m. this morning three missiles hit the village directly three
00:58more hit on a ridge a bit further along that they heard that someone had been
01:02killed in the neighboring village there were wounded people in this village so
01:06this young man decided to take his mother in the car and just leave towards
01:11northern Lebanon another family a group who are also packed in a car they
01:17decided to actually go off to Syria because they felt that Lebanon was not
01:21safe anymore so people very much in a state of stress people rushing fleeing
01:28their homes and these airstrikes which have been pummeling this region behind
01:33us I mean the team we have seen at least four or five of these missiles strike
01:39seeing the flumes of spokes the explosions so of course it is a very
01:43impressive sight but it does show also the intensity of this Israeli attack on
01:50southern Lebanon which is starting to ripple across the country as you know
01:54there have been attacks in the north as well but people are now rushing to
01:57supermarkets stocking up on food and basics so very much the country bracing
02:04for what might be a long period of turmoil