News Wrap: Israel strikes Hezbollah HQ in Beirut
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🗓️ 27 September 2024
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| 0:00.0 | The day's other headlines start in the Middle East where Israel says it struck Hezbollah's |
| 0:05.4 | central headquarters in Beirut. Massive blasts shook the city just before sunset, |
| 0:11.2 | flattening several residential buildings. The death toll was not immediate. before sunset target of the strikes. Nizarala's condition is unknown, |
| 0:24.0 | though an Israeli official tells the news hour |
| 0:26.1 | that they believe he was at the site. |
| 0:28.5 | Ali Rogan has more. |
| 0:30.4 | In southern Beirut today, |
| 0:35.0 | multiple massive explosions. |
| 0:40.0 | Then thick plumes of smoke that engulfed parts of the Lebanese capital. |
| 0:46.3 | As I'm a look on a plot, all the Lebanese media reported that six high rises were bombed, leveled, and reduced to rubble. |
| 0:55.8 | Israel called it a precise strike targeting Hezbollah headquarters, which it said was built |
| 1:01.0 | under residential buildings in the densely populated Dachia suburb of Beirut. |
| 1:05.4 | Here's the truth. Israel seeks peace. Israel yearns for peace. |
| 1:12.8 | Israel has made peace and will make peace again. |
| 1:16.8 | The strikes coincided with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. |
| 1:25.6 | He justified Israel's attacks in Lebanon that have reportedly killed over 700 people this |
| 1:30.4 | week, even as dozens of diplomats staged a walk out |
| 1:34.9 | opposing Israel's actions in Gaza and Lebanon. As long as Hezbollah chooses the |
| 1:39.6 | path of war, Israel has no choice. They endanger their own people. They put a missile in every |
| 1:46.7 | kitchen, a rocket in every garage. A source familiar tells the news hour the strikes targeted Hezbollah General Secretary Hassan Nasrala, who has been its leader for over three decades. Nasrala joined the ranks of Hezbollah in his 20s, working his way up under the mentorship of Hezbollah co-founder Abbas |
| 2:05.3 | al-musawi, who was assassinated by Israel in 1992. Today Beirut Reels under the shock of |
| 2:12.0 | what was the biggest attack on the city in years. |
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