The drc launches its first Vaccination Campaign to fight the virus. Youre with Bbc News. Iam i am lyse doucet, reporting live from israel. The day when hamas fighters went across the territory. In the end 1200 people were killed and 150 taken hostage. We are at the entrance to what had been the day before, a novell Music Festival where a night of celebration turned into a slaughter at dawn. More than 1100 slaughter at dawn. More than 400 people, mostly young israelis, but people who had come to this Music Festival from Around The World where murdered. When hamas went through these trees, kidnapping and killing. At a time when the war is escalating, before we do, let us look at the latest developments in the last 24 hours beginning in lebanon where there was more israeli bombardment overnight. A night described as the most violent yet. Israel carrying out more than 30 Air Strikes, most of them in this other neighbourhoods of beirut where hezbollah does have a strong presence but these a
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Your people back into their homes, you dont escalate to deescalate. And obviously now, with the iranian retaliation, israelis are in their shelters as they go into the new years holiday weekend. Ben . Yeah. I think, you know, since October 7th, the Biden Administration has had a number of goals, one was to provide support to israel as it aims to go after hamas, but then also one of the principle goals of u. S. Diplomacy since October 7th had been avoiding deescalation into lebanon, precisely because i think there was an understanding that lebanon could be kind of the Trip Wire to this broader regional war that essentially, you know, it is one thing if there is a conflict In Gaza, that alone is destabilizing enough and is obviously brought a tremendous Human Toll and has grinded on for a full year. But the concern has always been that if israel launched a Ground Operation and significantly escalated things in lebanon that could draw iran into a conflict in a direct way as were seeing to
Between israel and an arab neighbor. Katy tur picks up our breaking News Coverage right now. Good to be with you. Im Katy Tur in for chris jansing. We are watching israel and waiting for a Damage Assessment after iran sent dozens, perhaps more, of ballistic missiles at the country, including tel aviv. This is what it looked like and sounded like add it was happening. [ sirens ] in a statement, iran says the missiles were in honor of hezbollah leader nasrallah where the israelis killed with a 2,000 Pound Bunker busting bomb In Beirut last friday. If israel responds, iran says it will face crushing attacks. So will israel respond . Theyre already indicating, yes, they will. The u. S. And allies have been trying to convince all the parties involved to work toward a Cease Fire worried the continued escalation of attacks between Hezbollah And Israel and now iran could lead to all out war. Meanwhile, as the Iron Dome was trying to intercept these missiles, israeli News Outlets were reporting
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