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Hello, I'm Oliver Conway.

This edition is published in the early hours of Monday the 21st of October.

Explosions are heard across Lebanon as Israel targets branches of a bank it says

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Israel has stepped up its assault on Hezbollah across Lebanon, targeting banks linked to the group in blowing up villages along the southern border.

On Sunday the Israelis hit one village 14 times in a quarter of an hour according to Lebanese state media.

Israel's defense minister Joave Galance said the military was destroying the enemy all along

the border.

He said Hezbollah was collapsing and that prisoners captured

by Israeli forces had spoken of great fear felt among the group. As Knight fell the Israeli

Defence Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari issued a fresh warning.

In a few minutes we will be issuing an initial evacuation notice to

Lebanese residents of Beirut and other locations to

evacuate the sites used to finance Hezbollah's terrorist activities. I would

like to stress here that anyone in the vicinity of sites used to finance Hezbollah's

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