Lebanon says at least thirty-one killed in Beirut airstrike
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🗓️ 21 September 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Lebanon's health minister says at least thirty-one people are now known to have been killed by Friday's Israeli airstrike in Beirut - a third of them women and children.
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(IMAGE: Residents near the site targeted by an Israeli strike the previous day, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, 21 September 2024 / CREDIT: Wael Hamzeh/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:07.2 | We're coming to you live from London. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm Krupa Party. |
| 0:10.1 | Thank you for being with us. |
| 0:11.9 | We begin this hour in Lebanon where it's been another |
| 0:14.9 | unsettling night in the capital Beirut with the sounds of Israeli drones buzzing |
| 0:19.5 | overhead. It comes after Fridays strike by the Israeli Defence Forces targeting Hezbollah's elite |
| 0:26.0 | Radwan unit, killing several senior figures including top military commanders Ibrahim |
| 0:31.2 | Akil and Ahmed Wabi. At least 31 people including three children |
| 0:36.1 | were killed. And this follows device explosions across Lebanon on Tuesday and |
| 0:40.8 | Wednesday killing dozens and and wounding thousands more. |
| 0:44.0 | Israel is widely believed to have been behind those attacks, but has made no comment. |
| 0:48.7 | The cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah escalated on the 8th of October last year the day after the |
| 0:54.7 | attack on Israel by Hamas gunman from Gaza, Hezbollah thereafter fired at Israeli |
| 0:59.6 | positions in solidarity with the Palestinians. Our correspondent, Hugo Bachega, is in Beirut for us. |
| 1:05.0 | Good to have you with us, Hugo. |
| 1:07.0 | Hi there. |
| 1:09.0 | Hi, since this morning people have been waiting at the scene of yesterday's Israeli |
| 1:14.0 | air strike I imagine they're there waiting for news of their loved ones what can you |
| 1:18.5 | tell us about the latest on those casualty figures? |
| 1:28.1 | Yes so the Lebanese Health Ministry is saying that at least 31 people were killed, including three children and seven women. |
| 1:31.6 | And I was in Tahir earlier today near the site of the attack. |
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