There say 569 people including many children have been killed since monday. The foreign minister says the number of people displaced from southern lebanon is probably approaching half a million. Israel says it wants its campaign against hezbollah to be as short as possible and says it s killed a senior commander of the iranian backed group, which has been firing rockets into northern israel. And as world leaders meet in new york, the un security council says it will discuss the escalation on wednesday evening. Orla guerin starts our coverage. A community in mourning. The village of saksakiyeh in southern lebanon today. Ii were killed here yesterday by israel s massive bombardment. The dead included four women, an infant and a seven year old girl called joury. Herfather, mohammad halal, says she was an innocent child and a martyr. He pledges his support for the hezbollah leader, sheikh hassan nasrallah. Even if they kill us, he says, we are at your service. Also being mourned toda
We start in the Middle East where. Lebanon has called for us help to end a wave of israeli assaults the Deadliest Bombadment the country has seen in decades. Health authorities there say 569 people including many children have been killed since monday. The Foreign Minister says the number of people displaced from Southern Lebanon is probably approaching half a million. Israel says it wants its campaign against hezbollah to be as short aS Possible and says its killed a senior commander of the iranian backed group, which has been Firing Rockets into northern israel. And as World Leaders meet in New York, the un Security Council says it will discuss the escalation on wednesday evening. Orla guerin starts our coverage. A community in mourning. The village of saksakiyeh in Southern Lebanon today. Ii were killed here yesterday by israels massive bombardment. The dead included four women, an infant and a seven year old girl called joury. Herfather, mohammad halal, says she was an innocent ch
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In the philippines working aboard a scallop boat for a fishing company in scotland. Joel would bejoined at the company by other filipino workers with similar ambitions. But you had no experience fishing or at sea at all? onlyjoel had fished before, yet here they all were, recruited through agencies, ready to go to sea. The men travelled months apart but it was the same journey to the same place annan, a small town in scotland s southern coast and the premises of tn trawlers. Its owners, the nicholson family, have lived in the town for generations. They re in with the bricks. Its lead director, tom nicholson. He owns much of the harbour here and lives in a substantial compound on the waterfront. At the time, he ran a fishing operation worth over £4 million. The filipino men were here to work for him on his boats. And did you see those documents again? his contract to work aboard the vessel called the mattanja. But the company put him on a different boat the philomena. Joel went
According to israel. It comes in the hours after the israeli military carried out what it called extensive strikes on hezbollah targets in southern lebanon. Israeli aircraft destroyed thousands of hezbollah rocket launch barrels in southern lebanon, according to israeli officials. Also tonight, the us state department is urging american citizens to leave lebanon, with fears growing of an all out war. Meanwhile, the death toll from israel s strike on a densely populated area of southern beirut on friday has risen to 37. Hezbollah says 16 of its members were killed in the attack, including senior military commander ibrahim aqil. He was wanted by the us government for years and was designated a global terrorist for his involvement in the 1983 bombing of the us embassy in beirut. Friday s bombing also killed civilians, including three children, with more feared trapped in the rubble. Our middle east correspondent orla guerin reports from the scene in beirut. Israel is believed to have been