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Lebanese healthcare workers caught in the line of fire from Israeli airstrikes

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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The Israeli military said it killed the man set to succeed Hezbollah's longtime leader who was also assassinated in late September. As the war between Israel and Hezbollah expands, its toll on civilians in Lebanon is only worsening. Israeli airstrikes around Beirut have increasingly targeted healthcare facilities and healthcare workers. Leila Molana-Allen reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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The Israeli military today said it killed the man set to succeed Hezbollah's longtime

0:05.2

leader who was also assassinated by Israel in late September. The IDF confirmed

0:10.6

Hashim Safiadine was killed along with other top leaders of the

0:14.0

militant group in an early October Beirut air strike.

0:17.5

Meantime Hezbollah fired at least 80 rockets on northern Israel today.

0:22.3

Some were intercepted. others left Israelis wounded.

0:26.0

As the war between Israel and Hezbollah expands, its toll on civilians in Lebanon is only worsening.

0:32.8

As Lela Molana Allen reports, Israeli airstrikes around Beirut

0:36.8

have increasingly targeted health care facilities

0:39.6

and health care workers. An 11-story apartment block leveled in less than a second.

0:46.0

Dozens of homes and lives demolished.

0:49.0

This missile strike came with a warning,

0:52.0

so residents grabbed what they could and fled.

0:55.1

Each night the streets of Beirut fill with panic as residents run from their homes under threat,

1:01.0

but often there's no warning at all. And now hospitals as well as homes are under attack.

1:07.8

Yesterday, Israel's authorities said they believed a Hezbollah cash trove sat under

1:12.4

Beirut's Al-Sahal Hospital but said they wouldn't strike it.

1:16.9

Instead they hit a different one. Just before midnight an airstrike was launched at the entrance

1:22.1

of Beirut's Rafi Kaddidi Hospital,

1:24.4

flattening four buildings in front of it. This is the capital's main specialist public hospital,

1:29.8

where children injured in the bombing are receiving surgery.

1:33.6

Rescueers dug for hours through the mangled carcass of concrete and iron,

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