Of a wider conflict. Israel is continuing its operations in lebanon as leaders weigh options to retaliate against iran s longrange missile assault on tuesday. If israel does respond to the strike, then the islamic republic has vowed to retaliate against israel and countries it sees as supporting it. Us presidentjoe biden said the us is now discussing the possibility of israeli strikes on iran s oil infrastructure. Oil prices have increased 10% since iran s strike on tuesday, which was launched after israel s killing of hassan nasrallah, leader of the iranbacked hezbollah. Meanwhile, hopes are dimming of a ceasfire in gaza or lebanon. Nearly one year on from hamas s attacks on 7 october, israeli forces are still in gaza and 97 hostages remain unaccounted for. As the humanitarian situation worsens in both countries, us charities now say 30% of lebanon s 5. 8 million people are now displaced. Southern lebanon s salah ghandour hospital says it s been attacked by israel, after it was warned
For dozens of areas in the city. In this footage from the last couple of hours, you can see explosions lighting up the sky over beirut. Reports say the blasts were targetting the hezbollahdominated suburbs. Earlier in the night, hezbollah said its fighters had been engaged with israeli troops near the lebanonisrael border. This is the scene live in beirut, as the clock passes 6. 00am there. As air strikes continue, lebanese authorities say four hospitals are now out of action and the united nations has warned that all 900 shelters for displaced people are now full. This recent map shows weapons strikes across the region. Attacks by israel are shown in red and those by hezbollah rockets fired into northern israel are in purple. Israel has ordered residents in these southern lebanese communities, about 30 villages, here marked in orange, to leave their homes for their own safety. The areas in grey show places which have already received evacuation orders since tuesday. On friday mornin
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War returns to this city. And this attack came with no warning. We went to inspect the damage a residential building near the lebanese parliament. Beirut appears increasingly under threat. This is where an Emergency Response Group linked to hezbollah operated, now gone. There were just Emergency Service workers. This is the truth. We only saw them helping people out, says mustafa, who lives on the tenth floor of the building hit. The damage in this building gives you a sense of the power of this attack. And theyve been cleaning up the rubble here, but we can still see some surgical masks and gloves and bandages as well. And you can probably hear the sound of drones flying overhead. This is a densely populated district here in central beirut. Hasan, whos a teacher, has lived in this neighbourhood for 2h years. These are some of the victims of the attack. They include one Rescue Officer and two paramedics. The recent israeli Air Strikes have killed 97 medical workers across lebanon, acco