Israel conducts more airstrikes on Hezbollah targets
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🗓️ 21 September 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The US national security adviser has said there’s a real risk that an escalation in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon could ignite a regional war. Since Jake Sullivan voiced his concerns, the Israeli military says it's launched fresh attacks on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.
Also, we speak to Robert Baer, a former CIA agent, on the attacks in Beirut and the killing of senior Hezbollah commander, Ibrahim Aqil. And supporting a parent with dementia, we hear from one science writer about her mother's experience.
(Photo: Medical personnel work at the site of Friday's Israeli strike, as search and rescue operations continued on Saturday. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. We're coming to |
| 0:08.3 | live from London. I'm Kruppaparty. Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:25.0 | Explosions in southern Lebanon tonight as the Israeli military launched a new round of aerial attacks targeting the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. |
| 0:28.8 | Israel Defence Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari made this announcement in a video statement. |
| 0:36.0 | In the past hour, we've been attacking widely in southern Lebanon following the identification |
| 0:41.6 | of Hezbollah's preparations to fire into Israeli territory. |
| 0:46.0 | Dozens of Air Force warplanes are currently attacking terror targets and launchers to eliminate threats against the citizens of Israel. |
| 0:54.7 | Well earlier in the day, Sirens sounded as Israel's iron dome missile defence system |
| 1:00.3 | intercepted rockets over the north of Israel. |
| 1:03.0 | The idea said that around 90 rockets were fired into Israel from Lebanese territory and |
| 1:15.5 | that it destroyed thousands of Hezbollah's launch systems. |
| 1:19.4 | The cross-border strikes follow an Israeli attack on a building in Beirut's southern suburbs on |
| 1:23.9 | Friday that killed two senior Hezbollah commanders along with at least 35 others including |
| 1:29.0 | three children and seven women. Well Danielimona is our correspondence in Jerusalem. |
| 1:34.4 | Thanks for being with us, Daniel. |
| 1:35.4 | We've been hearing from the IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari there, but what more did he have to say? |
| 1:41.7 | Well, it was a fairly brief statement from him about the actions they're taking in |
| 1:46.6 | southern Lebanon today but we're starting to see video emerging from southern Lebanon |
| 1:52.0 | there's been some these are clearly very |
| 1:54.1 | extensive airstrikes. We're seeing some very very large explosions in some of these |
| 1:59.0 | videos. So it does appear to be a significant operation. |
| 2:04.0 | We've seen, you know, really months of airstrikes by Israeli warplanes in southern Lebanon |
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