Israeli air strikes on Beirut intensify
Newshour
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🗓️ 6 October 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Beirut has suffered one of the heaviest waves of Israeli bombing so far in the hostilities with Hezbollah.
More than thirty airstrikes hit the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, with Israel issuing a new call for residents to evacuate the area.
On the eve of the anniversary of the Hamas attacks, we ask if a peace deal is even imaginable.
Also on the programme: We'll hear about Hollywood's struggles, despite the success of streaming; and we remember the night life of London in the 1980s.
(Photo shows a a man walking among the rubble of a damaged site, in the aftermath of Israeli strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs on 6 October 2024. Credit: Reuters)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour here on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.0 | We're coming to you live from London. I'm Paul Henley. |
| 0:22.0 | And that was the sound of fresh Israeli airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Beirut's southern suburbs. The explosions were loud and huge plumes of flames could be seen |
| 0:25.4 | against the black night sky. They were launched once again just as the Israeli |
| 0:30.3 | Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel had made progress on this new front of the war. |
| 0:36.0 | About a month ago, towards the end of the destruction of the Hamas battalionalions in Gaza, we began to fulfill the |
| 0:43.9 | promise I gave to the residents of the north. We eliminated Nasrula and the top |
| 0:48.7 | echelon of Hezbollah. We eliminated the commanders of the Radwan force who planned to invade Galilee and carry out a greater |
| 0:56.2 | and more terrible massacre of our citizens than the one on October the 7th. |
| 1:00.4 | In a recorded message broadcast to Israel on Saturday night, Mr Netanyahu also stressed that his country would not allow Iran's attacks on Israel to go unchallenged. |
| 1:10.0 | The Prime Minister has today been visiting troops along the Lebanese border. |
| 1:15.0 | This resident of Beirut was displaced by the ongoing fighting. |
| 1:19.0 | We have been displaced for 10 days now. We don't have food with us. You're not even able to go and get new clothes. We left our homes and came here. Every night there's a strike. you cannot sleep. We came here and we're unable to go back from |
| 1:36.1 | where we came. Our situation is terrible. If anyone is able to find any way to get out of the |
| 1:41.4 | country, they should. It's better than living on aid |
| 1:44.3 | people come and give us sandwiches this is the way we're living now I've been speaking to |
| 1:49.5 | Germana hadad who's a prominent Lebanese poet, writer and translator. She's at home in Beirut and |
| 1:56.0 | I asked her to describe her experience of the most recent bombings. |
| 2:00.3 | Yesterday night was the most violent night so far in Beirut. |
| 2:06.0 | Obviously we can't sleep with all the explosions around us and with fear inside of us because we already traumatized, especially ever since the explosion of the |
| 2:16.9 | port of Beirut because where I live is very near and my home collapsed over my head on that day. |
| 2:24.6 | Ever since then, whenever I feel like the smallest sound, |
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