Israel continues its offensive against Hezbollah
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🗓️ 4 October 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Lebanon says four hospitals in the south are out of action, as Israel continues its offensive against Hezbollah. The UN says all nine hundred government shelters for the displaced are now full. We speak to Mouenes Kalakesh, the Director of south Lebanon's Marjayoun Governmental Hospital, one of the hospitals forced to close.
Also in the programme: We'll hear from the widow of the man who died during the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump in July; and the European Union slaps punitive tariffs on imported Chinese electric vehicles.
(Photo: With rubble now strewn across the road, and access by vehicle restricted, Lebanese citizens are fleeing across the border to Syria on foot. Credit: REU)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newsar from the BBC World Service coming to you live from our |
| 0:08.4 | studios in Central London I'm Julian Marshall. The assassination on September the 27th of the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut has taken the conflict between Israel and the Iranian-backed militant group to a dangerous new level. |
| 0:24.4 | This past week has seen Israel launch a ground invasion into southern Lebanon and begin a wave of |
| 0:29.8 | airstrikes in the south and on targets in the capital Beirut, while Iran launched a large-scale |
| 0:36.2 | ballistic missile attack on Israel in revenge for the killing of Nasrallah in a heightening |
| 0:42.2 | cycle of retaliation. |
| 0:44.7 | In the course of the program, with developments moving at a bewildering speed, we'll be |
| 0:49.5 | looking at how the conflict in Lebanon is deepening and its growing humanitarian consequences, finding out |
| 0:55.6 | how Israel seems to be opening up a new front in the occupied West Bank and as Iran braces |
| 1:02.0 | for an Israeli military response exploring two competing visions for the region |
| 1:08.2 | from Israel and the Arab world. |
| 1:12.0 | Well Israel seems to have an ever expanding list of what it says are Hezbollah linked targets |
| 1:17.7 | as it continues its ground and air offensive in southern Lebanon and area assault on Beirut. |
| 1:24.0 | President Biden speaking to the media of the White House just a short time ago |
| 1:28.0 | said Israel had the right to defend itself but needed to avoid civilian casualties. |
| 1:34.0 | The Israelis have every right to respond to the vicious attacks on them, not just from the Iranians, but from everyone from Hezbollah, or the Houthis. |
| 1:47.0 | Anyway, and, but the fact is that they have to be very much more careful about dealing with civilian casualties. |
| 1:56.0 | Earlier in the week, most targets were in the Hezbollah district of Dye in the south of Beirut, |
| 2:01.7 | increasingly strikes of her buildings in the south of Beirut increasingly strikes of her buildings in the centre of the city. |
| 2:05.6 | One of the overnight targets in the capital is believed to be the man expected to take over |
| 2:09.9 | as Hezbollah's leader Hashem, Safiadin. |
| 2:13.6 | Israel has also attacked the main road |
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