Hezbollah and Israel exchange fire overnight
Newshour
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🗓️ 22 September 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Hezbollah fired more rockets into Israel and Israel again attacked Lebanon from the air, as the UN warns the region is on 'the brink of imminent catastrophe'. We hear from a journalist who writes for a Hezbollah news site.
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(IMAGE: Smoke billows over southern Lebanon, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as pictured from Marjayoun, Lebanon, near the border with Israel, September 22, 2024 / CREDIT: Karamallah Daher / REUTERS)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour live from the BBC World Service in London. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Rebecca Kessby. There's been intense fighting across Israel's northern border with Lebanon overnight and into this morning, |
| 0:15.2 | a barrage of around 150 rockets was fired into Israel by Hezbollah fighters, |
| 0:20.5 | as well as drone strikes, sirens sounded over large parts of northern Israel |
| 0:24.9 | and thousands rushed to shelters. |
| 0:27.3 | These latest strikes come following the coordinated attacks on Hezbollah communications |
| 0:31.7 | equipment last week and a major Israeli strike in southern |
| 0:35.2 | Beirut on Thursday that killed 45 people according to the Lebanese health ministry. |
| 0:40.3 | Israel said it killed several Hezbollah commanders in that strike and has |
| 0:45.1 | continued to pound Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon overnight. Israeli |
| 0:50.2 | air defenses intercepted many rockets but some reached far into Israel as far south as the port city of Haifa. Aichiya, It's Chaki is one resident who said a rocket partially damaged his house. |
| 1:02.1 | We are living here, three houses from here. |
| 1:05.0 | And it happened this morning around 6.30. |
| 1:10.0 | There was an alarm and then immediately afterwards a big explosion, very, very big explosion. |
| 1:17.0 | Even three or four houses from here, our window in the main room was completely destroyed and Vintelato fell down. |
| 1:28.0 | Speaking on the Trevor Phillips on Sunday show which is a UK news show on the Sky News Channel, the Israeli |
| 1:36.5 | President Isaac Herzog blamed Hezbollah for provoking a dangerous escalation in the conflict. |
| 1:43.4 | It is clearly a very dangerous situation and clearly has a potential of escalating dramatically, |
| 1:50.3 | but we have to understand the situation in Mepheia meaning Hezbollah started this war. |
| 1:58.0 | It started following the arrest attack of Hamas on October 7th. |
| 2:02.2 | Hezbollah since then has been bombarding us endlessly. |
| 2:05.0 | Almost 100,000 Israelis have been evacuated from their homes. The entire North has been |
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