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Podcast: Mission Network News - Middle East
Episode: Lebanese feeling ripple effect of conflict on Israel border
Description: Lebanon (MNN) — The United Nations warns of a “potential mass exodus” of Palestinian refugees as fighting escalates in southern Lebanon. The Lebanese terror group Hezbollah began attacking northern Israel in early October.
Pierre Houssney of Horizons International says, “They’ve been provoking Israel in solidarity to [Hamas and] what’s going on in Gaza. There have been skirmishes and shelling; at least 60 Hezbollah fighters have been killed.”
As a result, Houssney explains, “Villages along the Lebanon-Israel border are really dangerous places right now. A lot of people have been fleeing those villages to Beirut, or anywhere they can...