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How Israeli strikes on Hezbollah-linked bank could hurt Lebanese civilians

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Israel launched new attacks in Beirut despite U.S. requests to limit strikes in the Lebanese capital. The target was a financial organization that Israel and the U.S. call Hezbollah's bank. But the bank also provides loans to Lebanese civilians, and human rights groups worry the strikes only worsen the country's financial and humanitarian crises. Nick Schifrin reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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Turning now to the Middle East, Israel has launched new attacks in Beirut despite U.S. requests to limit strikes in the Lebanese capital.

0:09.0

The target was a financial organization that Israel and the U.S. call Hezbollah's bank, but the bank

0:14.3

also provides loans to Lebanese civilians and human rights groups worry the

0:18.8

strikes only worsen the country's financial and humanitarian crises.

0:22.9

That says the US is looking into a leaked document

0:26.0

revealing Israel's preparations for attacking Iran.

0:29.1

Nick Schifrin reports.

0:32.3

Overnight, right outside the Beirut Airport's gates, an Israeli

0:37.3

airstrike. Israel ordered the area evacuated before massive airstrikes that destroyed entire buildings and burned

0:48.1

storefronts in Hezbollah's stronghold in southern Beirut. By day those buildings lay crumpled next to apartment complexes whose

0:56.8

sides are now blown out. The strikes hit from northern Lebanon in the hills of the

1:02.0

Becca Valley to Zahrani in the south.

1:05.0

Our store and our livelihood are gone.

1:08.0

This neighborhood is all civilian.

1:10.0

Our store is right there and everything is gone.

1:15.0

Across the country, the targets were al-Qard al-hasan

1:18.0

that Israel and the U.S. Treasury say Hezbollah uses to manage the group's finances.

1:23.2

Herzi Hallavi is Israel's top general on a visit today

1:26.3

to southern Lebanon.

1:29.1

We struck close to 30 targets across Lebanon.

1:32.1

Hezbollah's financial system, El Khard-Hassan. 30 targets

1:34.0

across Lebanon,

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