Escalating Tensions for UN Peacekeepers Amid Regional Conflict

The Lebanese capital Beirut is a divided city, where life continues as normal for some, while not so far away Israeli air strikes are reducing buildings to rubble. 

The sound of Israeli drones is constant as its forces hunt members of Hezbollah. 

The militant group has been firing missiles into Israel since Hamas terrorists crossed from Gaza into Israel last year. 

Today, we go to Beirut with the ABC’s global affairs editor John Lyons who explains why some Lebanese welcome the weakening of Hezbollah.

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John Lyons, ABC Global Affairs Editor 

Key Topics:

• Beirut conflict
• Israeli air strikes
• Hezbollah
• Lebanese civilians
• Israeli drones
• Middle East war
• Lebanese army
• Civilian deaths
• Political divisions in Lebanon