This is Andrew Peach in London.

Welcome to News Hour from the BBC World Service.

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First, the Israeli military has launched a series of

airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in the eastern Lebanese city of Balbeck and its

surrounding villages. One of the explosions was caught live on Al Jazeera TV in Lebanon.

The city's mayor said more than 50,000 people fled within hours of being told the

strikes were going to happen. Roads were jammed with panicking residents trying to escape.

Balbeck, which is a Hezbollah stronghold, is also home to some of the region's best preserved

Roman temples. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Our correspondent Hugo Bachega is in Beirut.

I asked Hugo why it's the first time Balbeck. Our correspondent Hugo Bachega is in Beirut.

I asked Hugo why it's the first time Balbeck has been hit.

This is a city that had been relatively untouched by Israeli airstrikes in this war.

I think a lot of people will be familiar with Baobec

because this is a city very popular with tourists

are famous for its Roman ruins.

And I think what is important here is that this could suggest that the Israeli military is expanding its campaign against Hezbollah in the east of the country.

We've seen that the South has been heavily hit, Beirut Israeli military but I think we could be seeing now an

intensification of this air campaign against Hezbollah in the east because this is another area where Hezbollah has a very strong presence and this is a part of the country where Hezbollah has built part of its infrastructure, it recruits fighters in those areas,

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