Israel carries out strikes on southern Lebanon
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🗓️ 20 September 2024
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Israel unleashed strikes against Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon late Thursday, adding to fears of an escalation in conflict along the border.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt, ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Friday, September 20th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.2 | exit. Today the latest from Lebanon as cross-border tensions with Israel continue. |
| 0:27.0 | Plus we take a closer look at the latest controversial measure being considered by Georgia's election board, and we discuss how Donald Trump has |
| 0:34.6 | gone after Kamla Harris's racial identity. Israel's military carried out an extensive |
| 0:41.0 | wave of airstrikes against Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon late yesterday, |
| 0:45.8 | adding to fears of a serious escalation in months of conflict along the border. |
| 0:50.5 | The strikes come after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah vowed to take revenge on Israel |
| 0:55.0 | who the group accuses of orchestrating a two-day attack in Lebanon that saw Hezbollah |
| 0:59.5 | pagers and handheld radios explode. |
| 1:02.4 | The incidents killed more than 30 people and seriously and of yesterday's late operation, its jets struck hundreds of multiple rocket |
| 1:14.5 | launcher barrels in southern Lebanon that were set to be fired immediately toward |
| 1:18.6 | Israel. Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran and an ally of Hamas has been firing near daily missiles |
| 1:24.8 | into Israel's territory since October 7th when Hamas attacked Israel and Israel |
| 1:29.3 | responded by launching a war in Gaza. Tens of thousands of Israeli residents |
| 1:33.7 | of Northern Israel have since evacuated south |
| 1:36.6 | amid Hezbollah's assaults. |
| 1:38.5 | Meanwhile, Cutter Airways has banned Pagers |
| 1:41.0 | and two-way radios from its flights out of Beirut after the blast. |
| 1:45.4 | You can read more with a link in today's show notes. |
| 1:52.2 | The Georgia State Election Board is set to vote on a controversial measure today that would require local precincts to conduct hand counts. |
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