Fearing an Israeli invasion, 1 million people flee homes in Lebanon

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Close to a million people were forced out of Lebanon after tensions between Israel and Hezbollah grew over the weekend. Both Israel and Hezbollah vow to keep fighting.

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00:00To be able to come to the airport in Beirut, there are a lot of bombs, you can hear all the bombs, the streets are almost empty.

00:18I feel that we are worthless. Whether we live or not, our soul doesn't matter.

00:29In fact, if another white man from the European Union dies or something like that, he has more value.

00:40In fact, we are just numbers. 500 people died in Lebanon, that's fine. What else is there?

00:48What else is there?

00:50We are very worried, we are very afraid. That's why we moved out from Beirut.

01:16Because they started targeting Beirut's areas, not only in the south. It's really scary, we had to move, we had to fly away from Beirut.

01:29No, it is not safe, it is so problematic. We have old people there, so we cannot leave them, but I hope that in 10 days we will be coming back.

02:16Beirut, Beirut, Beirut.

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