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Hezbollah strikes on northern Israel raise fears that full-fledged war could be next

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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A drone fired from Hezbollah injured 18 Israeli soldiers over the weekend. It's adding to fears that a full-fledged war could break out. More than 60,000 Israelis are still evacuated from the northern border with Lebanon and Secretary of State Blinken said Israel had "effectively lost its sovereignty" there. Nick Schifrin reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

This weekend a drone fired from Lebanese Hezbollah injured 18 Israeli soldiers.

0:06.0

One of the highest single casualty incidents since Hezbollah opened fire on October 8th, one day

0:11.6

after Hamas's attack in southern Israel.

0:14.0

Nick Schifrin and his team have been reporting from northern Israel, and Nick joins us once again, Nick.

0:19.0

I'm on more than 60,000 Israelis are still evacuated from the border with Lebanon.

0:24.0

Today, Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin said Israel had, quote, effectively lost its sovereignty

0:29.3

there.

0:30.3

Some 95,000 Lebanese, are also displaced.

0:33.2

And tensions are very high, as we saw beginning right

0:36.8

on the Israel-Lebanon border.

0:41.2

The northern Israeli town of Stula has no residence, only a newly built home damaged in a newly built neighborhood abandoned and Lieutenant Colonel Doton, who requested we use only his first name.

0:54.4

One rocket hit, was able to destroy the whole house.

0:57.2

This house has to be rebuilt.

0:58.5

It hit the foundations, completely destroyed it.

1:02.0

This happened exactly a month ago.

1:04.0

Stula once prided itself on its view, that's Lebanon beyond the wall.

1:08.7

Now that proximity is its greatest threat.

1:11.5

We have five minutes.

1:12.6

After five minutes, we can be shot.

1:15.8

As Bla videos show what it describes as Iranian-made munitions

1:19.3

hitting Stuwa's homes.

1:21.3

The missile hit over here. See, this is the first impact, come to this side, and you can see it going through one wall and then a second wall over there. You see the hole? That's from the missile. The clock stopped at 5.15.

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