Why reporting the Lebanon war is harder than Iraq or Syria

2024/11/11

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Maya Gebeily

Roland Oliphant

Venetia Rainey

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Venetia Rainey认为黎巴嫩战争是她报道过的最艰难的冲突。Roland Oliphant详细描述了加沙北部的人道主义危机，并指出以色列的军事行动可能构成种族清洗，同时对加沙北部居民无法返回家园表示担忧。他还概述了黎巴嫩和叙利亚持续遭受空袭的情况，以及反坦克导弹威胁的持续存在。此外，他还讨论了卡塔尔暂停作为停火调解人的工作，以及沙特阿拉伯召开的峰会旨在应对加沙和黎巴嫩的战争，但由于沙特和伊朗关系缓和以及对巴勒斯坦建国问题的关注，峰会结果难以预测。最后，他还提到以色列表示在黎巴嫩停火方面取得进展，俄罗斯可能参与其中，停火协议的轮廓可能包括真主党撤出利塔尼河以北地区，以及以色列国防军在特定区域的部署。Maya Gebeily则从记者的视角，描述了报道黎巴嫩战争的复杂性，包括信息收集的难度和对局势解读的多层性。她指出黎巴嫩国内对战争的反应存在差异，部分地区生活如常，而另一些地区则遭受了严重破坏和人员伤亡。她还评估了以色列军事行动的效果，以及黎巴嫩与以色列关系正常化的可能性，并分析了黎巴嫩政治人物在应对危机时的策略，以及避免内战再次爆发的努力。最后，她还谈到了在黎巴嫩进行报道的挑战，包括真主党对报道的限制以及记者面临的安全风险，并分析了以色列对叙利亚目标的持续空袭，以及这种空袭模式的转变，以及约旦对叙利亚局势和边境安全的担忧。

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This chapter presents the updated death tolls for the conflicts in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Israel as of November 11th, 2024. It also addresses inconsistencies in previously reported Israeli death tolls and clarifies the source used for future updates.

Gaza: 44,383 deaths
West Bank: 732 deaths
Lebanon: 3,189 deaths
Israel: 1,771 deaths
Source for Israeli death tolls: Institute for National Security Studies

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Israel has said there is progress in talks about a ceasefire and indicated Russia could play a part. On today’s episode of Battle Lines, Venetia and Roland look at what this means and go over the latest news updates from around the region, including a voicenote from an aid worker fleeing northern Gaza and meetings between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

They also chat to Reuters’ Beirut Bureau Chief Maya Gebeily about how Lebanese politicians and citizens are coping with the fighting, what is behind Israel’s increasing attacks on Syria, and why the conflict in Lebanon is her most difficult reporting assignment yet.

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