Israel widens offensive and strikes Houthis in Yemen
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🗓️ 29 September 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Israel has attacked Houthi sites in Yemen it said were used to transport Iranian weapons and oil. The strikes came as Israel carried out more attacks across Lebanon, and Hezbollah fired more rockets into northern Israel
Also on the programme: Austria's far right Freedom Party is heading for victory in national elections; and the Pope has been berated on a visit to Belgium about the clerical abuse of children and gender inequality in the Church.
(Photo: Smoke rises from the site of Israeli air strikes in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen on September 29, 2024. Credit: REUTERS/Stringer)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Newsar from the BBC World Service come in to you live from |
| 0:07.9 | our studios in Central London I'm Julian Marshall. |
| 0:12.8 | The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is broadening the base of his coalition |
| 0:16.7 | government at home, even as the country widens its military response to its enemies abroad. |
| 0:23.7 | Following the assassination of the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nisrala in Beirut on Friday, |
| 0:28.9 | Israel has intensified its bombardment of southern Lebanon and also the east of the country |
| 0:35.8 | carrying out 30 airstrikes within an hour today in the Becca Valley and today |
| 0:41.5 | Israel also carried out airstrikes against Yemen from where the |
| 0:45.1 | Houthi movement has been firing missiles and drones against Israel. |
| 0:50.1 | While at home Mr. Netanyahu has strengthened his own position by bringing opposition politician |
| 0:56.3 | Gideon Saah and his party into his government. |
| 0:59.6 | We'll hear shortly from a Lebanese minister about the scale of the exodus of civilians from the south of the country, |
| 1:06.5 | but first let's speak to the BBC's John Donison in Jerusalem and what more can you tell us John about those Israeli |
| 1:16.3 | airstrikes against Yemen today? Well they're certainly not letting up Israel says it managed to take out two more senior Hezbollah commanders in strikes not only in the south of Lebanon, in the south of Beirut as well but also as you say quite deep into Israel in the |
| 1:37.2 | Beckar Valley and you really feel at the moment that Israel feels like it's got its boot on the throat of |
| 1:44.7 | Hezbollah and it is going to keep applying the pressure. You certainly don't get any |
| 1:49.7 | sense that it's going to let up. But that strike against hooty positions in Hodeida, how much is known? |
| 1:58.0 | Well that's a reminder really that that is another dangerous front in a war that threatens to |
| 2:05.3 | engulf the Middle East so yes Israel carried out strikes targeting one of |
| 2:10.3 | Yemen's main ports and two power stations and that is some 1800 |
| 2:16.1 | kilometers away so Israel's military has a pretty long reach. There were very powerful explosions seen in that port around that area. |
| 2:27.0 | Israel says it was responding to more drone and missiles attacks from Yemen. |
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