Hello everyone and welcome to Amunpur. Here's what's coming up.

More devices explode in Lebanon as Israel targets Hezbollah.

Amid fear and panic and spiraling war, Lebanon's foreign minister joins me.

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in the process. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur in London.

Walkie-talkies exploded today in Lebanon a day after Israel remotely detonated Hezbollah's network of pages.

Israel's defense minister today says a new phase of war is beginning,

and that the center of gravity is moving north,

meaning towards Lebanon.

The two stunning attacks killed more than a dozen people

and injured thousands.

Hezbollah is vowing revenge.

The group which, while the West, designates, it as a terrorist organization, is actually also a powerful political party, with 13 seats in the Lebanese parliament.

Foreign Minister, Abdallah Abu Habib, was the country's ambassador to the United States, also worked once as the Economist at the World Bank, and he is now joining us from Beirut. Welcome to the United States, also worked once as the Economist at the World Bank.

And he is now joining us from Beirut.

Welcome to the program, Foreign Minister.

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