Hello, im mathew amroliwala. The israeli military says, its expanding its Ground Offensive against hezbollah by moving into a new zone, in south western lebanon. It says it now has some 15,000 soldiers deployed in the south of the country. Hezbollah has fired more than 100 rockets at northern israeli cities and while israel says it shot most of them down, there has been some damage in the Port City of haifa. Amid the fighting, the Deputy Leader of hezbollah has said he supports a call from lebanons parliament, for a ceasefire with israel. Its thought to be the first time hezbollah has called for a ceasefire without tying it to a truce in gaza. 0ur chief international Correspondent Lyse Doucet is in tel aviv. Clear Signs Today of an escalation in israeli military operations in southern lebanon, with forces moving away from the South East where they have been focusing their actions to the south west, giving evacuation Orders Yesterday for people to move out of that area. It said from the
Being launched from iran as yet and is at a high state of alert. The israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has urged israelis to heed safety instructions, and warned of testing days ahead. The us Embassy Injerusalem has directed staff and their families to shelter in place until further notice. Joining me now is our correspondent Jon Donnison whos Injerusalem And Anna foster whos in beirut. Overnight, the Ground Invasion started in Southern Lebanon with israelis watching that attack butjohn, first to you, what is the latest youre hearing about preparations with those threats in the message relayed from white House Officials there to officials there in the israeli government. There in the israeli covernment.. , government. Israeli military is confirmed government. Israeli military is confirmed that government. Israeli military is confirmed that it government. Israeli military is confirmed that it received confirmed that it received intelligence from the united states that iran was p
The military is going to use military from the air, land and sea. The deputy chief of hezbollah said the group s fighters are ready to confront invasion, he acknowledged the assassination of leader must is assassination of leader must is a big blow but all following commanders would soon be replaced. Let s go right to be rude and anna foster who was standing by for us. Thank you forjoining us, we mention the reports of blasts in southern beirut, bring us uptodate on what you ve been witnessing. That s right, the last few hours, there were three more airstrikes here in the southern suburbs of beirut in die here, we knew they were coming because once again, the idf and israel defense forces said they told them to live to evacuate told them to live to evacuate to a safe distance and again, we heard the strikes in the echo around the whole of the city, they are really loud when they happen and you can see the plumes of the smoke and the flames when it s dark like it is now rising up into 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
First time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Israels intensifying Military Assault on lebanon has involved everything from Booby Trapped electronic devices to bunker busting bombs. As the Death Toll mounts, prime Minister Netanyahu says the target isnt the people of lebanon, its the armed militant group hezbollah, which continues to fire rockets into israel. So what, if anything, can the lebanese Government do to stave off a Gaza Style Catastrophe . My guest is lebanons economy minister, Amin Salam. Is his Government the very definition of powerless . Minister Amin Salam in beirut, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, stephen. Pleasure being with you. Thank you forjoining me. War is happening to lebanon, war is happening to lebanon, minister, and yet war minister, and yet war is the last thing that is the last thing that lebanon wants. Lebanon wants. How does that make how does that make you feel right now . You feel right now . You said it, stephen. You said it, stephen