More Israeli air strikes on Beirut
Newshour
BBC
4.2 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Israel hits the Lebanese capital as its troops reportedly fire at UN peacekeepers in the south of the country. We speak to a witness to the strikes in Beirut and a representative of UNWRA, the UN's organisation for Palestinian refugees.
Also in the programme: we hear from one of the men accused of raping Giselle Pelicot in the rape case that has shocked France; and a new report on the world's plummeting wildlife populations.
(Photo: People gather in front of a damaged building after an Israeli military strike at the Nuwayri area in Beirut, Lebanon, 10 October 2024. Credit: WAEL HAMZEH/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello and more Israeli airstrikes on the Lebanese capital Beirut. It comes after Israeli forces |
| 0:16.2 | also fired on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, wounding too. The Lebanese Health Ministry says the |
| 0:22.4 | strikes on Beirut have left 22 people at least dead and more than a hundred injured and an hour ago or so I spoke to the BBC's Anna Foster, she's in Beirut and told me more about what's happening there. |
| 0:35.0 | We saw and heard these very powerful strikes not far actually from the area that I'm speaking to you from. |
| 0:41.0 | What is notable is that again this is a strike in the central area of |
| 0:45.5 | Beirut small Cheer neighborhood very close to downtown very close to the UN but |
| 0:50.1 | notably not the southern suburbs area where so many of these Israeli |
| 0:54.4 | airstrikes have been so far and that is why we're seeing and hearing already a |
| 0:59.1 | very large death toll because this is an area that is still busy. I was there earlier today and |
| 1:03.8 | the sound of an Israeli drone was very loud and low in the sky above. People were |
| 1:08.5 | extremely nervous because they feared another strike and just a few hours later it has happened but it's a busy |
| 1:15.3 | area there was no warning and they're still digging through the rubble looking for |
| 1:19.4 | survivors. So what sort of building was it, you know? |
| 1:30.0 | Well, the indications are that these strikes were both on residential buildings. And looking at some of the pictures that are coming through on Lebanese TV, we're seeing one |
| 1:34.4 | building that looks like it's collapsed and another building where two apartments seem to have |
| 1:39.4 | been hit by a missile so that the ones above and below are still intact but two actual |
| 1:45.2 | apartments have been completely destroyed windows out walls gone. There is |
| 1:50.6 | some indication or certainly some reports in the local media that this might have targeted the brother-in-law of Hassan Nasrallah |
| 1:58.1 | The leader of Hezbollah who was killed nearly two weeks ago now no confirmation of of that just yet. If that was the case |
| 2:04.8 | then I expect that Israel would have something to say about it fairly soon. So at |
| 2:10.0 | the moment that is just local suggestion but certainly they had a target in mind |
| 2:15.8 | in this particular area away from where you know most of Hezbollah's top commanders have been being based. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from BBC, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of BBC and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.