Knowledge of friday s israeli air strike in beirut. But first, we can bring you these live pictures from beirut where israeli warplanes have launched new attacks on buildings in the city s south. The israeli military says hezbollah is storing weapons there, a claim hezbollah denies. Blasts have been heard in the southern suburbs and residents of three specific blocks were ordered to evacuate. Now lebanon s health ministry says the death toll from israel s earlier strike on beirut has risen to six, with 91 wounded. Hezbollah s leader, hassan nasrallah, was reportedly the target of the attack. Neither israel nor hezbollah has formally confirmed his status. Israeli air raids on lebanon this week have killed nearly 800 people, according to lebanon s health ministry. We begin our special programme on the conflict tonight with this report from our middle east correspondent hugo bachega in beirut. (explosions) scenes of war in beirut. Hezbollah s conflict with israel returning to its strongho
As chaos, with ambulances rushing to the scene through roads packed with people trying to flee. Our correspondent hugo bachega has the latest from beirut. Explosions scenes of war in beirut. Hezbollah s conflict with israel returning to its stronghold of dahieh, with a series of massive explosions and an escalation with unpredictable consequences. Explosion. An attack so powerful that it was seen and heard across the city. Lebanon now on the brink of another war. Chaos on the streets and here is what they are running from. Dahieh, in southern beirut, now looking like gaza. But amid so much destruction, jubilation. Two children rescued from the rubble alive. Hezbollah s backers, iran, say this strike marks a dangerous gamechanging escalation in the conflict. For israel, it s a strike targeting the heart of hezbollah s operations. Moments ago, the israel defense forces carried out a precise strike on the central headquarter of the hezbollah terror organisation that serves as the epicent
Air strike in beirut. But first, these are live pictures from beirut where israeli warplanes launched new attacks on buildings in the city s south in the past several hours. Blasts were heard in the southern suburbs and residents of three specific blocks were ordered to evacuate. Returning now to that earlier strike that caused tensions to erupt, lebanon s health ministry says the death toll from that strike has risen to six, with 91 wounded. Hezbollah s leader, hassan nasrallah was reportedly the target of the attack. Neither israel nor hezbollah has formally confirmed his status. Israeli air raids on lebanon this week have killed nearly 800 people according to lebanon s health ministry. We begin our programme with this report from our middle east correspondent hugo bachega in beirut. Scenes of war in beirut. Hezbollah s conflict with israel returning to its stronghold of dahieh, with a series of massive explosions and an escalation with unpredictable consequences. Explosion. An atta
Welcome to Bbc News. First of All of course we dont see Cross Border Fire from hezbollah and from the Israel Defense forces, so on the ground, any talk of a ceasefire seems very very remote. Let me ask you about your take on what is happening on the ground first of All. Is happening on the ground first of All. Well on Ground It is this exchange first of All. Well on Ground It is this exchange of first of All. Well on Ground It is this exchange of fire first of All. Well on Ground It | is this exchange of fire which will continue and sometimes intensifies, both sides think that they can get an advantage, israel particularly, in that it is claiming to knock out hezbollah positions, particularly Rocket Launching Site and Command And Control posts, it is striking into beirut at times, which is causing a lot of Collateral Damage but they seem to be targeting commanders, the intelligence is working well at the moment, as far as israel is concerned and the hezbollah leadership is concerned, t
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