In supermarkets, on the street, in cars, at home and even in barbershops. Thousands of hezbollah members simultaneously injured by exploding pagers. Incidents reported from all over lebanon, from beirut to the bekaa valley, and even in neighbouring syria. Hospitals suddenly inundated. Each explosion may have been small, but men lost fingers and eyes. Some had gaping wounds to their hips where the pagers were worn. Nine people are believed to have died, including one child. Israel is saying nothing about these extraordinary attacks. Frankly, it s hard to think of anyone else remotely capable of mounting such a sophisticated operation. But it comes at a time when the government is threatening to step up its military effort against hezbollah. Israel s border with lebanon has been volatile ever since the war in gaza began exchanges of fire every day between israel and hezbollah. Tens of thousands of civilians on both sides have been forced to flee. Kiryat shmona has been hit several time
A warning, his report contains distressing images from the start. This was a devastating attack. In supermarkets, on the street, in cars, at home and even in barbershops. Thousands of hezbollah members simultaneously injured by exploding pagers. Incidents reported from all over lebanon, from beirut to the bekaa valley, and even in neighbouring syria. Hospitals suddenly inundated. Each explosion may have been small, but men lost fingers and eyes. Some had gaping wounds to their hips where the pagers were worn. Nine people are believed to have died, including one child. Israel is saying nothing about these extraordinary attacks. Frankly, its hard to think of anyone else remotely capable of mounting such a sophisticated operation. But it comes at a time when the government is threatening to step up its Military Effort against hezbollah. Israels border with lebanon has been volatile ever since the war In Gaza began exchanges of fire every day between Israel And Hezbollah. Tens of thousands
The latest attacks in ukraine s sumy region. Volodymyr zelensky has accused the west of emboldening vladimir putin with its hesitation over long range missiles. President biden and sir keir starmer had met to decide whether to allow kyiv to use storm shadow missiles against targets inside russia. I don t think much about vladimir putin. Despite this putdown, there is still a cautious approach and no official change in policy. This wasn t a meeting about a particular capability. That wasn t why we got our heads down today. It was to allow ourselves the space which we took, the time which we took, to have a strategic discussion. These long range missiles are at the heart of the talks. The uk already supplies storm shadows to ukraine, but only for use within ukraine. The coming weeks could see that change, with them being allowed to be fired into russia at military installations. Some military observers say ukraine isjustified in wanting to stop the attacks at source. Now, what may happen
And senior adviser at the non profit razom for ukraine. She shared her insights on the discussion around permitting ukraine to target russia. When we spoke a few days ago, you are pretty optimistic that we would have a decision on these long range missiles. What do you think is holding things up? do you think is holding things u ? , do you think is holding things u ? , ~ , do you think is holding things u. ? ,. , ,,. , , up? hey, lucy. So there is still up? hey, lucy. So there is still. . . We up? hey, lucy. So there is still. . . We don t up? hey, lucy. So there is still. . . We don t know up? hey, lucy. So there is still. . . We don t know if i up? hey, lucy. So there is| still. . . We don t know if the decision has been made. Formally it has not been made. There is rumours that the storm shadows are going to be allowed, but we certainly don t know, and we have to say that is a possibility that london will begin to allow ukraine to use them, and that one probably makes a lot o