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Global News Podcast

BBC investigates deadliest single Israeli attack in recent conflict with Hezbollah

Global News Podcast

BBC

News, Daily News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

A BBC investigation into an Israeli attack in Lebanon finds evidence that almost all those killed were civilians. Also: a court in Pakistan orders a popular social media personality to publish videos on animal rights.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Global News podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:05.2

I'm Valerie Sanderson, and at 1400 hours GMT on Friday the 24th of January, these are our main stories.

0:12.4

A BBC investigation into the deadliest single Israeli attack in its recent conflict with Hezbollah

0:17.7

finds evidence that almost all the 73 people killed were Lebanese civilians.

0:23.6

The exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Takanovska says the country's presidential election, due this weekend, is a sham.

0:32.3

A court in Pakistan orders a popular social media personality to publish a video every month on animal rights.

0:41.7

Also in this podcast, the actor Hugh Grant says settlements made to victims like Prince Harry

0:47.7

in the phone hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch's newspapers don't end there.

0:53.5

In light of these findings, we think that the police should launch a new criminal investigation into this.

0:58.7

The people who were giving the orders are still there, and they're still effectively running this country.

1:10.6

We start in Lebanon, where a ceasefire has been underway for two months after more than a year of fighting between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia.

1:20.5

In the weeks before the ceasefire, Israel had intensified its bombing campaign against Hezbollah targets.

1:27.3

The single deadliest attack in nearly two decades took place on the 29th of September

1:32.2

when an Israeli airstrike destroyed an apartment block in the quiet village of Aynel Delb, killing 73 people.

1:40.1

Israel says the building was a terrorist command centre, and they were targeting a senior Hezbollah leader.

1:46.5

But a BBC eye investigation has found that most of the victims were in fact civilians, many of them children.

1:53.5

Ashraf lost his mother and sister in the apartment block.

2:00.0

For 20 years, my dad has been paying for this flood, now gone.

2:06.8

Nothing we find here is worth the people we lost.

2:11.4

The people who died are the most precious.

2:16.5

Our senior international investigations correspondent, Nawal Al-Maghafi told me what they'd found out.

2:23.0

We went to Aynad Dalb. It's in southern Lebanon. It's a mainly Christian village. And it's the six-story

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