STORY: Thousands of families flee S Lebanon amid border tension with Israel 
DATELINE: Oct. 30, 2023
LENGTH: 00:02:13
LOCATION: Beirut
CATEGORY: POLITICS

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the border town of Bint Jbeil
2. various of displaced citizens from Bint Jbeil in the public school of Tyre
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): YEHYA MOUSSA, Citizen from Bint Jbeil

STORYLINE:

As the Israel-Hamas conflict continues, the Lebanese-Israeli border has also seen armed conflict between the Lebanon-based Shiite military group Hezbollah and Israeli forces for more than 20 days.

According to statistics conducted by municipalities and security agencies, over 30,000 people have been displaced from villages and towns close to the Lebanese-Israeli border since the beginning of the border tensions.
   
Talal Al-Halabi, head of the Lebanese Red Cross Disaster Management Committee in Nabatieh, told Xinhua that about 1,500 families were displaced to Nabatieh and Tyre, 800 to Hasbaya region, and 700 families were displaced to other villages in southeast Lebanon.
   
He added that most of them moved to shelters, including schools and guest houses, and succeeded in receiving assistance supplies from associations and individuals, while around 20 percent of the displaced moved to houses of their relatives, friends, or rented homes at their own expense.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic): YEHYA MOUSSA, Citizen from Bint Jbeil
"We are here at Tyre public school and we are sleeping here in the classroom. The civil defense is providing us with most of our needs, such as diapers, milk, medicines and meals."

Confrontations on the Lebanese-Israeli borders have killed 58 people in Lebanon, including 47 Hezbollah fighters, since the beginning of the "Al-Aqsa Flood" operation on Oct. 7, according to sources in the Lebanese Internal Forces on Saturday.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Beirut.
(XHTV)