Beqaa Valley

Hart for Lebanon's Camille Melki says tensions remain high in Beirut as Lebanon could quickly become a proxy battlefield.

In fact, a truckload of missiles have been confiscated recently by the Lebanese army being moved from the Bekaa Valley to Beirut.

Not only missiles, but also explosives.

Yet the Holy Spirit is at work amid volatility.

Terrible, which was a God awful, uh, incident.

Um, but in the preceding weeks, the U S battleships had been shelling Lebanon, killing, uh, Lebanese in the Bekaa Valley, this was a retaliation.

Now, Reagan, to his credit, recognized this was a terrible folly, that they shouldn't have Marines in this position.

Get them all out of there.

It used saturation bombings and tried to kneecap the people a Syrian regime next door of Hafez al-Assad, tried to and almost succeeded in installing a friendly regime in Beirut that would sign a peace agreement with Israel and also eject Palestinian militants who were using Lebanon as a launch pad to attack Israel and send them into exile in the hope that by doing that they would also bury the Palestinian cause.

That same summer, Amberin, that Israel invaded, just four days after Israeli tanks rolled into Lebanon, The Iranians sent their Revolutionary Guard Corps fighters to the Bekaa Valley to begin the campaign to fight Israel.

And then that same summer, the U.S. sent in the Marines to Lebanon.

And so you have the Americans, the Israelis and the Iranians all in Lebanon, almost face to face sometimes, but not quite.

One is, of course, the scale of the structures.

I mean, if you look at the platform at Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, the stones that are uppermost on the platform, meaning they had to lift them above the lower portion of the platform, which is already like...

I don't know, tens of feet high, right? So you have these like 40, 50 ton blocks.

Again, you know, high precision.

Camille Melke with Heart for Lebanon says,

Come end of November, early December, especially in the Bekaa Valley, the temperatures drop significantly at night.

In some places, definitely it snows.

The rainy season comes.

the way we wanted, so let's just nice and easy pack up and get out of here.

I have to tell a story about that, right? I remember this time, me and a magician, we are in Lebanon, in the Bekaa Valley, and lots of refugee camps there, tent camps, Syrian refugees.

And these kids, you know, they don't go to school.

Many of them have lost their parents.

And on the other hand, they are simultaneously clashing with official Lebanese state authorities.

Which brings us back to the major internal flashpoint in the Bekaa Valley we mentioned at the top of the broadcast.

Yes.

Lebanese security forces intercepted a minivan carrying hundreds of kilograms of TNT and C4 explosives.