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Lauren Frayer

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Up First from NPR
Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

And she's now forced to turn people away.

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Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

It's worth looking at a map to understand the geography of this.

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Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

First, last week, Israeli officials said they would take Lebanese territory up to the Latani River.

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Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

That's a river that runs east-west, about 10 to 20 miles north of the current Israel-Lebanon border.

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Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

A few days later, they ordered residents out of a zone about 10 miles beyond that, north of the Zahrani River.

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Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

And now Netanyahu's announcement about this widening invasion is creating more confusion and more fear here.

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Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

Israel says it wants to create a buffer zone where Hezbollah can no longer fire rockets across the border into northern Israel, which it is still doing by the thousands.

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Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

An Israeli soldier with U.S.

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Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

citizenship grew up in New Haven, Connecticut, is the latest Israeli killed in combat inside Lebanon.

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Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

You'll know, Leila, this is a zone that Israel occupied in the 1980s and 90s, and many Lebanese fear history is repeating itself now.

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Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

Israeli officials say in Lebanon they want to duplicate the Gaza model, and we've all seen images of the destruction in that territory.

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Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

That's right.

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Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

Ali Shaib, a veteran television correspondent, really a household name here in Lebanon, along with sibling journalists Fatima Fatouni and her cameraman brother Mohamed Fatouni.

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Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

Afterward, their father Abbas Fatouni appeared on TV.

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Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

He's saying he was proud of his children, and Israel, as you noted, says it targeted them deliberately.

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Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

And why?

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Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

Well, Shahab worked for a Hezbollah-affiliated TV channel.

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Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

The Israeli military accuses him and Mohamed Fatouni of being militants operating under the guise of journalists.

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Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

It says it's aware of reports that a female journalist, Fatima, was there.

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Lebanese Warfront, US Troops Deployed To Middle East, TSA and Travel

and take steps to mitigate harm to civilians.