Lebanon's Deep Divide Over the War with Israel

Lebanon's Deep Divide Over the War with Israel

The video explores Lebanon's internal divisions over the war with Israel, highlighting destruction in Beirut and contrasting views on Hezbollah's role.

Why Lebanon is divided over the war with Israel | On The Ground. | Transcript:

The destruction is so, so much, this is Beirut. Why? What's happening in Beirut? Why did I train here? I don't know at all. How can I want to make peace when my home is being destroyed, my children are being killed? Peace? When you're okay, I'm okay, but when you're hitting me, hitting me, hitting me, hitting me, hitting me, Resistance is our honor, our pride, our dignity. No one has defiled the land of the South. Our land is pure. The country won't be solved until all of Hezbollah and others take away their weapons. Otherwise, there's no solution. Every three or four years, every year we create a story. It's a shame.

It's a natural idea that if someone attacks me, I 'll attack them. Resistance isn't a choice. There are many areas just next to downtown. But all over the place, you find yourself living like this. Material things are scarce here: little food, little bedding, little tents. You find yourself living in these tents. It's a shame, I swear to God, how difficult it is for someone to leave their home and come here and live in the streets of Beirut. Nothing is difficult for us. Our name is Shia, we are like this, just as our young brothers are fighting on the front lines, we are fighting like them too. We only left to protect our children and women. We did not run away from the Zionist enemy.

We hold our heads high with martyrdom. Many people in Lebanon talk about the idea of resistance. What does resistance mean to you? Resistance is everything to us. Resistance is our heart, our soul, our blood, and the veins that run through our bodies. God is sufficient for us. He is defending the honor of the nation. I mean, Look, look, come here, come here, how many? And I'll show you close. Around him. What is the smoke above? saying

God is watching. We can see smoke rising from just beyond the Lebanese parliament. We're now headed in that direction to see where the air strikes wow this is an eight story building. Half of it seems to have been completely taken out in this air strike. It's just 100 meters or so away from Beot Seafont. My friend is here in the building with his family. My friend was with me; we were out for a walk. His wife is in the building, his wife, her mother, and her father. They're displaced from the south; maybe they're under the rubble. They were martyred or

wounded. Did they take them to the hospital? We don't know anything. Come closer, come closer. He stopped at a checkpoint on the next street. We were surprised and started nudging people. There are children under the rubble, but most are martyred. We started going out. We wanted to call out to him, sometimes we called him. Please, one last time, one last time, I'm saying this. tell Netanyahu, whatever you do, you can't break our resolve. Every time you bomb, we shout, "Here we are, Nasrallah! Here we are, Nasrallah!" standing with me, so there are five or six missiles here. There's a food warehouse, empty milk cartons. There are no weapons here. I see Israel saying there's no war, not against the

Lebanese people, they say the war is against Hezbollah. What do you say to him? What do I mean? I have weapons. He stopped at the checkpoint with me. Weapons are being used here in Beirut to strike missiles. How is Israel? Israel is lying. Netanyahu is lying. America is lying. Not one person here is from Hezbollah. But when it comes down to it, it's all resistance. Muslim, Christian, Druze, Sunni, and Shiite resistance. When he wants to fight Hezbollah, he wants to fight all of Lebanon. Many southern suburbs and southern Lebanon areas have the brun of

Israeli attacks during the fighting. Israeli strikes have reached far beyond these. They are hitting places like this Christian suburb. North of this is the building we are talking about. Wow, this is a complete disaster. Two rockets went down from the first floor, from the top of the building, the third floor from the other side. In early morning, this Flavia. Wasill. Unfortunately, they are other Iran. The other stories on What about the claim from his supporters that they are only countryable? You know [Music] defending Lebanon from attacks by Israel and others. He has tried so many wars, and each time we ended up with a devastated country. Right,

so they only need to go by the Lebanese rules and let down the weapons. My friends, let us try to live in peace. Hezbollah, which dragged Lebanon into a destructive war, committed a crime against the state first and against all Lebanese people. our need, all need While Israel has attacked areas across Lebanon, the real front lines of the battle with Hizballar in the country south, where Israeli forces occupy hundreds of square kilometers of Lebanese territory. Oh yeah, on the left, look at that massive strike. All of these areas are under forced evacuation orders by the Israeli military as it continues to bomb towns and cities all over this region. We're headed to the city of Nabatia. For people, are you medicine or do you know if they will

stay? Are they not warriors? Are we? So we do everything we can to fight back. This is how we. Okay, go to him, go to him. Muhammad, five, Muhammad, Suleiman, Suleiman, Suleiman, ten, halfway up the stairs. This motorcycle has "Nabatieh Ambulance" written on it. These were the ones wearing uniforms. The ambulance walked in front of them, and they walked behind the motorcycle. The young men were calling me, shouting to me, saying, "Muhammad, there's an attack on a motorcycle convoy." I still had

hope that they weren't the targets, that someone passing by was hit. Until I went downstairs and saw the motorcycle. That's when I knew that Jude and Ali were the ones who were martyred. No matter how I stood there, I saw your work. After that, this is our jihad, this is our resistance, this is our defense of the land. This is how we defend without weapons. We defend with words, we defend with actions. The ambulance is by giving. This is defending the homeland. He also went for something he loves, so I have to finish this journey.

Israel forces to occup areas and much of southern suburbs ling ruin so much destruction life in other areas almost as normal right so we're here in the streets of J in just out north of and as you can see there are families out there are people enjoying their cocktails on a Sunday afternoon it's hard to imagine that the same country Welcome to you guys tik Instagram yeah can I ask you guys about the situation in the country we here in j talking to people about sure we heard a lot of leban talking about this idea of resistance how do you mean what do you mean by it's called anything for this situation senses we allanese and it's hard for us to tell on other people I believe everyone knows the root cause of the situation

are you talking about and basically look this is the we live here in peace even though bombs are carried out on us we're enjoying life we Partying we're going. Yes, this is Lebanon. Even just a few days ago, what they show on Western media is that Lebanon is only parts and the government has no people. We are with the resistance until our last breath, even if the country burns. We want to live with dignity. Either the South will be honored and respected like all of Lebanon, or it won't exist. We are at your

service, Nasrallah! We are at your service, Nasrallah! I came here to tell the government, and the government must understand, that this state does not represent us. This is what represents us: the youth in the field. They represent us. If we abandon the resistance or surrender our weapons, the South will be gone, our honor will be gone. Israelis will be in our rooms, in our homes. They will enter our homes at dawn. It is not for the Christians, protecting the protecting, protecting even the people who don't believe in God, but there are a lot of Lebanese in this country who don't see

the idea of resistance in the way you do. Why do you think that is? Well, it's because it's like it is outside in the US as well. Call people out there, individualists, so if the resistance doesn't protect everybody and just protects the entity will come for in Lebanon the idea of resistance is inseparable from their identity for others what stands in the way of living a normal life with Israel forcing to occupy parts of the south and wider regional conflicts ono it's hard to see how the country can ever bridge that divide

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