Karine Torbay
speaker
143 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Jun
Karine Torbay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This one is like a little grocery shop.
There is a petrol station next to us.
Everything completely, at the moment, shut.
In lots of ways, life for many residents in Beirut goes on as normal.
They go to work, walk along the seafront, meet up in cafes and bars.
People here have got used to the sounds of Israeli drones flying overhead, monitoring daily life.
But for Yasmina, some things are hard to ignore.
There isn't enough room for everyone to shelter in schools, so many displaced people have had to camp out on the streets.
Martyr Square.
Rashana and her two daughters, Jennifer and Freya, are among those now adding to the population of the city.
Previously, they'd been staying at Rashana's sister's house in Saida, but things were getting crowded.
She rented a flat from a landlady in Beirut at a reasonable price.
But before she could move in, there were problems.
Rashana says people in neighbouring flats were worried.
As she was from the south of Lebanon, they feared, wrongly, that she might be connected to Hezbollah, and that could make their building a target for an Israeli strike.
After some negotiation, Roshana moved in.
The flat is fully furnished, but it's still costing Roshana $1,000 a month when she already has a house in Tyre.
A few days ago, Roshana drove back to Tyre to check on their house.
It's still there, still standing.
But hundreds of buildings and homes across the south of Lebanon have been destroyed by Israeli missile strikes and demolitions.
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