Israel and Hezbollah latest: Netanyahu's deadly gamble

This Is Not A Drill with Gavin Esler

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🗓️ 25 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Lebanon faces intensifying conflict after the deadly escalation in Israel’s rivalry with paramilitary group Hezbollah. An increasing series of skirmishes between Hezbollah and Israel has occurred since tensions in the region exploded with Hamas’ attack on Israel in October 2023 and Israel’s subsequent bombing campaign in Gaza. Now Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed Hezbollah has been ‘hit with a string of strikes it didn’t imagine’ - after a Mossad plot to rig Hezbollah pagers with explosives brought chaos to Lebanon. Israel has since stepped up aerial bombardment of Hezbollah targets in the country, with hundreds reported dead. What next for Lebanon, already scarred by decades of conflict? How will Hezbollah and its patron Iran respond? And can the US and allies rein in Netanyahu and find a route to a ceasefire? Gavin Esler discusses the latest from the region with Gregg Carlstom, Middle East correspondent at The Economist. Support us on Patreon to keep This Is Not A Drill producing thought-provoking podcasts like this. Written and presented by Gavin Esler. Produced by Robin Leeburn. Assistant producer Eliza Davis Beard. Original theme music by Paul Hartnoll – https://www.orbitalofficial.com. Executive Producer Martin Bojtos. Group Editor Andrew Harrison. This Is Not A Drill is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	At Barclays, we're here for the land of football.
0:06.4	We're here for the Premier League,
0:09.0	and the Barclays Women's Super League.
0:12.1	We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance.
0:18.0	We're here for the grassroots and all the muddy boots. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.
0:27.6	Barclays, here for the land of football.
0:32.3	The interconnected conflicts of the Middle East are extremely complex, but they have been since the dawn of recorded history.
0:40.0	The Hamas attacks on Israel and the Israeli invasion of Gaza make up part of the most recent chapter.
0:45.8	Now, it's Lebanon, a fragile state on the verge of another potentially catastrophic war.
0:51.8	It's fast-moving and horrific, but a story with
0:55.7	long roots and global impact. I'm Gavin Esler. This is not a drill. It's impossible to say precisely when the current fighting in Lebanon began.
1:29.0	At times it seems it's never stopped, just occasionally paused for the combatants to regroup.
1:34.8	Put briefly, after decades of conflict in a previous invasion of Lebanon by Israel,
1:39.9	more than 50,000 Israeli citizens were forced to leave northern Israel
1:44.4	as a result of a long campaign of attacks on their settlements by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
1:50.0	Then, since October 2023, the conflict in Gaza began and turned into almost a year of
1:56.3	endless human suffering, attrition and a horrific stalemate.
2:01.1	Now Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has turned attention to Israel's northern border.
2:06.3	Earlier this month Israel's security agency, Mossad, detonated explosives planted in thousands of pages used by Hezbollah activists in Lebanon.
2:16.0	At least 32 people died, thousands more were injured.
2:21.0	In the past few days Israel began a new bombing campaign against targets they say are connected to Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon including missiles and weapons stores.
2:30.0	Lebanese civilians is unclear how many have been killed and many thousands have been forced out of
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