Israeli military says it has hit hundreds of Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon
Newshour
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🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Lebanon's health ministry says hundreds of people have been killed and more than a thousand wounded in Israeli strikes today - the deadliest day of Israel-Hezbollah conflict in the past year. Over the border in northern Israel, we hear from a resident who has returned home, despite the danger. Also on the programme: Election disinformation among Latinos in the US, and a Sufi musical legend's new gift. (Picture: Smoke billows from the site of Israeli airstrikes near Lebanese villages, as seen from Marjaayoun, southern Lebanon Credit: Stringer/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock )
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to Newshour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service |
| 0:07.9 | studios in Central London. I'm Tim Franks and we're beginning in the |
| 0:12.4 | Middle East with a question which may sound a bit academic |
| 0:16.2 | but the question is whether we are on the cusp of another major conflict or whether that |
| 0:21.3 | major conflict is already inexorably unstoppably underway. |
| 0:26.0 | Today the Israeli military said that it had hit 300 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. |
| 0:32.0 | That would be the biggest wave of air strikes since |
| 0:34.6 | this latest round of hostilities began last October. The Lebanese Health Ministry has just said |
| 0:40.2 | that more than 180 people have been killed in those attacks and more than 700 injured. |
| 0:46.3 | The country's information minister Zyad Makari had this warning. |
| 0:50.2 | In the Aduen-Sraili, the mutamadi al-Al-Alab-I-Beda. They continued as... The continued Israeli aggression on Lebanon is a war of extermination in every sense of the word and a destructive plan that aims to destroy Lebanese villages, towns and eliminate all green spaces. |
| 1:06.8 | In all the contacts we make we call on the United Nations, the Security Council and the |
| 1:11.2 | influential countries to stand with the truth and deter aggression. |
| 1:16.4 | We renew our commitment to the UN Resolution 1701 in full and we are working as a government to |
| 1:22.0 | stop the new Israeli war and avoid as much as possible |
| 1:25.9 | falling into the unknown. |
| 1:28.1 | The Israel Defence Forces had earlier announced that it had sent messages over the Lebanese mobile phone network telling residents in the |
| 1:35.6 | south to move away from Hezbollah staging or storage posts. |
| 1:40.2 | This is what the idea of spokesman Daniel Hagaria had to say about that evacuation order. |
| 1:44.0 | We advise civilians from Lebanese villages located in and next to buildings and areas |
| 1:51.0 | used by Hezbollah for military purpose such as those used to |
| 1:56.4 | stole weapons to immediately move out of harm's way for their own safety. |
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