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(18 Jul 2006)
1. Pull out of cars waiting at Syrian-Lebanese border
2. Close-up of sign, pull out to border area
3. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Vox pop, Lebanese evacuee:
"We are from Al-Bekaa. I am bringing my family here to Syria."
4. Close-up of sign, pan down to people waiting
5. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Vox pop, Lebanese evacuee:
"We are greeting the courage of the Lebanese people, and their president and especially Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah. It is our land and our blood for the sake of resistance. We are right here in Al-Massnaa for the time being."
6. Pull out from Lebanese flag to wide of cars passing through border area
7. Interior of border post with crowd of people
8. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Vox pop, evacuee (nationality unknown):
"Last Wednesday Israel began bombing the south and I was stuck here with my two children at Dowhat al-Huss (phonetic spelling) and my passport was at Tyre, my husband had to bring it back to me. They had to spend two hours on the road delivering the passport to me. Then my husband managed to get tickets for me, my family, his family and my sister in law so we can travel to Kuwait and we are just right now on our way to the airport."
9. Various of cars at border area
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop, Canadian evacuee:
"We were forced to leave through Syria to Kuwait right now, where my dad works. We are leaving right now, trying to get the visas. We are just going to Kuwait and trying to wait until this whole thing is over. Maybe come back to Lebanon, because we are from Saida and all of our stuff is in Saida."
11. Wide of border area
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox pop, Lebanese student:
"Everything is on pause until things go back to normal. My house is in Khaldeh. We were hearing bombings in the airport, Haret Hreik and Dahayet (south Beirut district). Niama Damour (phonetic spelling) is like five minutes away from our house so we heard heavy bombing and they were bombing the Palestinian camps in Niama (phonetic spelling), like right next to my house in Dowhat al-huss (phonetic spelling)."
13. Interior of border post with crowd of people, people queuing
14. Various of people waiting at border area
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of evacuees from Lebanon headed for the Syrian border on Tuesday, with an Israeli air and sea blockade preventing people from fleeing the week-old conflict via alternative routes.
Despite a flurry of diplomatic efforts aimed at stemming the escalating violence, foreigners and Lebanese nationals alike queued to leave the country.
Crowds of people waited at the border crossing in al-Massnaa, hoping to pass into Syria, many of them en route to other countries.
One man said he praised the courage of the Lebanese people. "It is our land and our blood for the sake of resistance," he said of the fighting between the Israelis and Hezbollah guerrillas.
A Canadian man visiting Lebanese relatives in Saida said his family had also been forced to leave.
"We are just going to Kuwait and trying to wait until this whole thing is over. Maybe come back to Lebanon, because we are from Saida and all of our stuff is in Saida," he said.
The Israeli bombardment continued throughout the day on Wednesday in south Lebanon, forcing whole families to head north to escape the onslaught.
Israeli jets also carried out two raids on southern Beirut - where Hezbollah is known to occupy many buildings - and the eastern city of Baalbek, also a hezbollah stronghold.

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