(3 Oct 2024)
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Larnaca – 3 October 2024
1. Wide exterior of Larnaca Airport
2. Wide of sign identifying airport in Greek and English
3. Passengers leaving with suitcases
4. Wide of Clea Rita Barsamian, 21-year-old student who left Lebanon on military flight, speaking with media
5. SOUNDBITE (Greek/English) Clea Rita Barsamian, 21-year-old student, left Lebanon on military flight:
++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"When you hear things like that for the first time, it’s very traumatizing."
(Off-camera journalist asks about her experience of the bombings)
"I stayed at home. I couldn’t do anything else. I was speaking to my parents and waited to return to Cyprus."
(Off-camera journalist asks how she feels now that she’s back in Cyprus)
"Much better. Surely I feel more calm, more safe."
6. Wide of media
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Clea Rita Barsamian, 21-year-old student, who left Lebanon on military flight:
"I should go back because I have university and everything, but I’m not sure when the situation will get better. It’s very messy. No one knows what’s happening. Every day there’s something new. So I’m not sure. University is closed for now."
(Off-camera journalist: What are you going to do from now on?)
"I have to wait for them to contact us again to be able to get back. So I have to put my life on pause now until this happens."
(Off-camera journalist: But you want to go back?)
"Yeah, definitely. I want to finish my studies. I live there now."
8. Wide of Nadine Zormorrod who left Lebanon on military flight with her children, speaking with media
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Nadine Zormorrod, left Lebanon on military flight:
++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
"The situation in Lebanon is very, very bad and we came here to feel safe."
(Off-camera journalist: How are you feeling?)
"Much better, much better, and the kids, especially the kids were experiencing very much trauma, especially for the sounds, the airplanes, the booms and everything."
10. Wide of Gigi Halifa who left Lebanon on military flight with her children, speaking with media
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Gigi Halifa, left Lebanon on military flight:
"It was quite tough times the last week, especially. It was bombing. We could hear it. It was loud, it was scary. And you know, seeing civilians suffer, regardless. It was very tough times, especially for my kids."
12. Air traffic control tower
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Gigi Halifa, left Lebanon on military flight:
"I don’t think so. For now, I don’t think so. What we’ve experienced was quite hard, very hard. It’s frightening. I mean bombing was right in front of us. We couldn’t go out. And it was just all over the place. So many civilians, a lot of dead in a very short period of time."
14. Wide of people walking toward taxi stand
STORYLINE:
Greece sent a military transport plane to Beirut on Thursday to evacuate Greek and Cypriot nationals who wanted to leave Lebanon as hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah escalate.
The C-130, carrying 38 Cypriots and 22 Greeks, landed in Larnaca in Cyprus midday local time on Thursday, before heading to a military airfield near Athens later in the day.
The evacuation came as an Israeli airstrike on an apartment in central Beirut killed nine people, according to Lebanon’s health ministry.
Israel has been pounding areas of the country where the Hezbollah militant group has a strong presence since late September, but has rarely struck in the heart of the capital.
Some who arrived safely in Cyprus spoke of their fear and what they’d witnessed.
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