Thousands flee Israeli strikes in Lebanon
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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The Lebanese government says 558 people have been killed in Israeli strikes since Monday. Meanwhile, Hezbollah rockets trigger alarms in Northern Israel. Also: Sweden accuses Iran of stirring up division through hacking.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:04.4 | I'm Andrew Peach and at 13 hours GMT on Tuesday, the 24th of September. |
| 0:09.0 | These are our main headlines. |
| 0:10.5 | The Israeli military and Hezbollah group in Lebanon are continuing cross-border attacks. |
| 0:15.0 | Lebanon's health minister says 558 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes since yesterday. |
| 0:21.0 | Swedish prosecutors accuse Iran of a hack |
| 0:24.6 | aimed at causing division in Sweden. |
| 0:28.6 | Also in this podcast? |
| 0:29.8 | It could have so much impact on our future |
| 0:31.7 | and the future of the information that the public |
| 0:34.5 | receives in this country. What do we know about the secret court battle to |
| 0:38.4 | determine the future of Rupert Murdoch's media empire? Murdoch. |
| 0:45.0 | The Lebanese military says 558 people have been killed since Israel launched |
| 0:50.0 | airstrikes in southern Lebanon. |
| 0:52.0 | 50 of them were children. |
| 0:53.6 | Israel says it's targeting Hezbollah and not the Lebanese people. |
| 0:57.5 | But there's no doubt that civilians have been among the casualties and thousands of people in |
| 1:01.6 | southern Lebanon have been forced to flee their homes. |
| 1:04.8 | My colleagues at BBC Arabic spoke to two people who made the journey towards Beirut in |
| 1:09.2 | their cars. We all received messages at home but from different numbers and names. The message said that we had to flee our neighborhood because it was close to sights that would be hit and close to weapons depots |
| 1:25.2 | as well. Afterwards the whole of southern Lebanon began to be hit. More than a hundred towns |
| 1:31.4 | were rocked by blasts. It was a massacre, so we had to flee to save our lives. |
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