Top Hezbollah commander among those killed in Israeli strike on Lebanon
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🗓️ 21 September 2024
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Saturday, September 21st, 2024. This is the exit. |
| 0:20.0 | Today Israel has killed a top Hezbollah committee. exit. |
| 0:23.0 | Today Israel has killed a top Hezbollah commander as tensions grow along the Israel-Leban |
| 0:27.7 | border. |
| 0:28.7 | Plus the Secret Service admits failure in the July Donald Trump shooting. |
| 0:32.8 | And Republicans and Democrats agree America faces a retirement crisis. |
| 0:38.8 | Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander and other senior figures in the Lebanese movement in an air strike yesterday on Beirut. |
| 0:45.2 | The Israeli military and a security source in Lebanon said Ibrahim Akhyl had been killed with other senior |
| 0:51.1 | members of an elite Hezbollah unit in the strike. |
| 0:54.0 | Aikial had a $7 million bounty on his head from the United States |
| 0:58.0 | over his link to the deadly bombing of Marines in Lebanon in 1983. |
| 1:02.0 | Lebanon's health ministry said at least 14 people died in the strike and the |
| 1:06.3 | toll was expected to climb. Hezbollah called the incident a treacherous Israeli |
| 1:10.9 | assassination. |
| 1:13.0 | Israeli Defense Minister Joav Galan said this week |
| 1:15.0 | that Israel is launching a new phase of war on the border with Lebanon. |
| 1:19.0 | He posted on X that the new phase will continue |
| 1:22.0 | until their goal is achieved, the safe return of the |
| 1:24.9 | residents of the north to their homes. |
| 1:27.3 | Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from homes on both sides of the Israel-Lebanan |
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