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Podcast: Mission Network News - Middle East
Episode: Israel-Hezbollah fighting heats up, displacement skyrockets
Description: Lebanon (MNN) — Things are heating up on the Israel-Lebanon border.
Hezbollah and the Israeli army have exchanged tit-for-tat fire since the war began in Gaza six weeks ago. Now, the range and intensity of the fighting are increasing, and both sides are using deadlier weapons.
See our coverage of the Israel-Hamas war here.
An estimated 29,000 people have fled the border area since October 7. “A lot of people have been fleeing to Beirut or anywhere they can get away from that border area,” Pierre Houssney with Horizons International says.
“[Others] are fleeing to villa...