FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT: Lebanon caught in the crossfire

This week, ABC's Foreign Correspondent heads to southern Lebanon, where communities are caught in the crossfire of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. Reporter Stephanie March examines the damage and displacement caused by the fighting, and how Hezbollah has become increasingly enmeshed in Lebanese life as civilians pay the price for a war they neither started nor can end. Supplied: - Advertisement - In the shadow of the US/Israel-Iran war, Lebanon has been thrown into crisis. The Israeli Defense Forces launched a ground invasion following rocket attacks by Hezbollah, Iran's Lebanon-based proxy militia in the early days of the war. In the months that followed the IDF has seized and occupied six percent of Lebanese territory, destroyed homes and buildings displacing tens of thousands of Lebanese. On Foreign Correspondent reporter Stephanie March travels to the heart of the crisis in southern Lebanon to see the damage firsthand and examines the way Hezbollah has become enmeshed in Lebanese life and how the people of Lebanon are paying the price for a war they neither started nor can end. Foreign Correspondent: Lebanon: Caught in the Crossfire airs tonight, Tuesday 8 September at 8pm on ABC TV and ABC iview.