Israeli Defence Minister Yoav gallant said the military is prepared to use forces from the air, Land And Sea to allow thousands of displaced israelis to return to their homes in the north. Mr gallant also said the next phase of the war against Lebanons Hezbollah will begin soon and that the killing of hezbollah S Leader was not the final step. Meanwhile, the Deputy Chief of hezbollah, naim qaissem, said the groups fighters are ready to confront an invasion. He acknowledged that Hassan Nasrallah s assassination was a big blow but said all fallen commanders would soon be replaced. We are hearing the British Government has chartered a flight for vulnerable british citizens. Presidentjoe biden maintained his call for an end to fighting. Weve also heard from the us department of defense. Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh spoke to the bbc about the conflict in the last hour. What doing along the Northern Border is conducting limited operations to dismantle Hezbollah Infrastructur
Hour, huge clouds of smoke has been seen rising from beirut after a series of explosions. Huge plumes of smoke 2530 minutes ago. The israeli defense forces have claimed to attack hezbollah s central headquarters in beirut saying the headquarters is under residential buildings in the suburb of the cities south. It would not stop until its objectives were met. Air strikes have continued throughout the course of the day with thousands of people being killed in lebanon. Hezbollah has been Firing Rockets into israeli cities including. Just in the last Half Hour, as i was saying, these huge blasts in beirut with the israelis giving details about their operations. More about that in a moment. Anna foster is there for us. Shes been describing what it actually felt like when those blasts went off, notjust seeing those plumes of smoke, but physically what that felt like that so many different people describing these as the since the beginning of this conflict. I will speak to anna in a moment, b
And lebanon could agreed to a pause in the Cross Border strikes in a way to try to de escalate what is becoming increasingly tense conflict here. The israeli Prime Minister, benjamin and yahoos official office issued a statement which called that Cease Fire in american and french proposal said that he was yet to respond to officially but did say that the fighting would continue in their words at full force. Theyve said there will be no Cease Fire until they achieve victory over hezbollah. An israeli brigade that is based near the lebanese border at the moment has been carried out as you see here. These are exercises that are designed to train the troops and simulate a manoeuvre talked about by the head of the Israeli Armyjust 24 head of the israeli Armyjust 2a hours ago. There has also been this afternoon another explosion here in the southern suburbs of beirut. An area which is a hezbollah stronghold area, one which the Israeli Military have targeted several times in the last week whe
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By sending around 700 additional Uk Military personnel to cyprus as part of a possible evacuation. They willjoin 500 british troops who are already based at raf akrotiri. Meanwhile, Israel And Hezbollah continue to exchange heavy cross borderfire, defying calls from World Leaders for an immediate de escalation. The lebanese government has called on the us for help to end a wave of israeli assaults, the deadliest bombardment the country has seen in decades. Health authorities there say 569 people, including many children, have been killed since monday. Hezbollah continues to launch rockets in the other, direction. The purple dots on this Map Show where those rockets landed. Israels Air Strikes within lebanon are marked here in red. And as World Leaders meet in new york, the un Security Council says it will discuss the escalation on wednesday evening. Aru na iyengar reports. Firing across borders, there is rarely iron Dome Defence System intercepts rockets fired by hezbollah from lebanon