Israel and Hezbollah clash inside Lebanon

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🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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With reports of close combat between Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, we hear from both sides of the border. And how will Israel respond to Iran's barrage of missiles last night?

We also get reaction from Tehran to Iran's decision to attack Israel directly; and we ask where this all leaves American influence in the region - is it now just a bystander?

(IMAGE: Smoke billows amid the ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Tyre, southern Lebanon October 2, 2024 / CREDIT: REUTERS/Aziz Taher)

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	we're coming to you live from the BBC World Service we're coming to you live from London. I'm James Menendez and as you might expect one story dominates the program today Iran's decision to attack Israel
0:15.9	directly with a barrage of about 180 missiles causing air raid sirens to sound across Israel and sending people fleeing into shelters.
0:25.7	They were ballistic missiles fired high into the atmosphere from
0:37.2	launchers about 2,000 kilometers away and traveling very fast towards what the Iranian government said were targets in
0:45.3	and around Tel Aviv. Most of them, it seems, didn't reach the ground. Instead, they were
0:50.9	intercepted in mid-flight by Israel's air defence systems,
0:55.0	explosions that could be heard in the occupied West Bank and wounding at least
1:15.4	two Israelis.
1:18.4	Well Talia Ashrat Dahan is a resident of Tel Aviv who took shelter when the sirens went off and she spoke to the BBC.
1:29.0	Within really three minutes women elderly, everyone runs down. We were packed so
1:36.2	tight in this room and you know what happens when you pack a bunch of people in a
1:40.0	very small basement, they create an incredible amount of heat and there was
1:44.5	children you know they took one child from the bath he was naked with his mother
1:49.5	and a pregnant lady was next to him and this soldier who was off duty who was in
1:55.8	Gaza was triggered by the alarms and he passed out. Well Iran said the attack
2:00.8	last night was revenge for Israel's killing of the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon,
2:06.1	other senior commanders and also the Hamas political leader Ismail Hanier who was blown up in Tehran.
2:15.3	Well in turn Israel promised its own retaliation for the missile barrage. Here's the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
2:20.3	Netanyahu. Iran made a big mistake tonight and it will pay for it.
2:27.7	The regime in Iran does not understand our determination to defend ourselves and our determination to retaliate against our enemies.
2:36.5	We will stand by the rule we established.
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