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Podcast: Mission Network News - Middle East
Episode: War in southern Lebanon risks food crisis
Description: Lebanon (MNN) — Lebanon is filing a complaint with the UN Security Council regarding Israel’s attacks this week in southern Lebanon, claiming they “targeted residential areas.” Israeli drone and air strikes killed a senior Hamas official near Tyre and a Hezbollah facility in the Bekaa Valley.
Living conditions near the border are deteriorating, and the war is also ruining Lebanon’s agricultural sector.
“A lot of the rockets being shelled at Lebanon have white phosphate, and this ruins the soil for a long, long time,” Heart for Lebanon’s Camille Melki explains.
“Farmers not only are deali...