Meanwhile, israel s assault on gaza continues with no sign of a ceasefire or the release of israeli hostages. My guest is ohad tal, an mp from the far right wing pro settler religious zionism party in israel s ruling coalition. Amid all the talk of escalation, what is israel s endgame? ohad tal injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, stephen. Thank you very much for having me. Yeah. It s a pleasure to have you on hardtalk. The world has just seen two carefully targeted assassinations one of a hezbollah commander in beirut, the second of the political leader of hamas, in iran s capital, tehran. Now, israel has confirmed it was responsible for the attack in beirut. No official word on the attack in iran, but it s widely assumed israeli responsibility for both. Why? why do you think israel has done it now? well, maybe we should have done it before. Already before. Maybe that would have prevented october 7th. Er, these. Both of these people are responsible for the death of of thousands
Military leader for many years. This report from the bbc s quentin sommerville. Israel s response came just before sunset a drone attack, three strikes on a building in beirut s southern suburb of dahiyeh. Explosions could be heard across the city, an attack that lebanon has been bracing itself against the days. The target, a hezbollah commander israel blames for the attack on majdal shams, in the occupied golan heights. Emergency services here are still working to rescue the injured at least one woman died and dozens have been left wounded. It s not known if the commander was killed. This is the building that was struck by an israeli drone. We believe, three rockets hit the building. As you can see, this is a heavily built up civilian area, but israel says it had a hezbollah commander it holds responsible for the majdal shams attack on its sites. There are mixed reports about whether he actually made it out alive, but we know there s been at least one woman killed and a number of
Of israeli hostages. My guest is ohad tal, an mp from the far right wing pro settler religious zionism party in israel s ruling coalition. Amid all the talk of escalation, what is israel s endgame? ohad tal injerusalem, welcome to hardtalk. Hello, stephen. Thank you very much for having me. Yeah, it s a pleasure to have you on hardtalk. The world has just seen two carefully targeted assassinations one of a hezbollah commander in beirut, the second of the political leader of hamas, in iran s capital, tehran. Now, israel has confirmed it was responsible for the attack in beirut. No official word on the attack in iran, but it s widely assumed israeli responsibility for both. Why? why do you think israel has done it now? well, maybe we should have done it before. Already before. Maybe that would have prevented october 7th. Er, these. Both of these people are responsible for the death of thousands of people. You know, just a couple of days ago, there was an attack of hezbollah to a druze
With lebanon and syria. It was seized by israel in 1967, the 1967 war and then formally annexed in 1981. And that is still disputed by lebanon. And this attack appears to have been in the northern part of the golan heights, in majdal shams. Now, among those who are killed, we understand, they are young people between the ages of ten and 20, as rockets are said to have fallen close to a football field and a playground. Now hezbollah, with whom israeli forces have been constantly involved in a tit for tat strikes since the 7th of october attacks here in israel, hezbollah has actually denied being behind this strike. That is a comment from hezbollah to bbc arabic, but also to reuters, the reuters news agency. Hezbollah officials say that they were not behind this rocket, but we wait to hear more on that, because the constant fear, of course, has been since the 7th of october attacks by hamas, that the situation in gaza could escalate into a much wider regionalwar, bringing in hezbollah fr
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