Fresh Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon
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🗓️ 19 October 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Beirut hit by heaviest strikes in more than a week after Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home was targeted by a drone from Lebanon. He has accused Hezbollah of trying to assassinate him.
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(Photo: Smoke billows after an Israeli air strike on southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon. Credit: STRINGER/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there and welcome to news out from the BBC World Service coming to |
| 0:07.0 | live from London with me Sean Lay. Having killed the leaders of both |
| 0:11.2 | Hezbollah and this week Hamas, Israel remains apparently committed to |
| 0:14.8 | destroying the two organizations, what Iran describes as parts of its axis of resistance. |
| 0:20.4 | This commitment has been demonstrated again throughout Saturday in both Gaza and in Lebanon, |
| 0:24.8 | even though senior Israeli political and military figures have questioned whether the objective is truly achievable.able. |
| 0:38.0 | Sirens in the coastal city of Haifa in northern Israel, as rockets fired from Lebanon were intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome defences. |
| 0:42.6 | Israel itself carried out at least eight airstrikes against the Lebanese |
| 0:51.6 | capital Beirut, 280 kilometers further south in Gaza, |
| 0:55.7 | Israeli planes drop leaflet showing a picture of the dead Hamas leader Yachya Sinwa with the message |
| 1:01.5 | Hamas will no longer rule Gaza, echoing words |
| 1:04.8 | expressed by Israel's Prime Minister binimin Netanyahu. |
| 1:08.7 | O'night Friday into Saturday and Airstry Conchabalia, the largest refugee camp in the Palestinian territory. |
| 1:14.7 | Sam Rose from UNRRA, the UN Agency for Palestinian refugees, told me earlier the conditions were |
| 1:20.0 | catastrophic. |
| 1:21.0 | The situation here is dire and it's getting worse in terms of the ability |
| 1:28.1 | of aid agencies to meet the basic life saving needs for a population who are in |
| 1:35.0 | desperately facing catastrophic food insecurity. |
| 1:39.0 | The official Palestinian news agency says an Israeli strike on the Amakasi camp in |
| 1:44.8 | Central Gaza killed at least 11 people in one home others are missing possibly |
| 1:49.2 | buried in the rubble. Residents described the moment of the strike. We were sleeping at night when a rocket fell down on this building. |
| 1:57.0 | We were sleeping at night when a rocket fell down on this building. |
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