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This is bbc news. Lets go straight back to that breaking news of the last few minutes. We will you knew the live scenes In Beirut. A massive explosion in the last little while from beirut. There you see the seconds after the explosion. We are hearing that there have been multiple explosions. That is coming to us from our correspondents on the ground in terms of the pictures you can see. Hugo bachegais pictures you can see. Hugo bachega is In Beirut for us, telling us this explosion is in one of the strongholds in the south of beirut. The Israeli Military also updating in the last few minutes, saying that they are currently striking Terror Targets, that is how they describe it, currently striking Terror Targets belong to hezbollah in the southern lebanon. This happened about five or seven minutes ago. You can see just the skyline, beirut, and the size of that explosion. Of course that fits entirely with what we have seen in terms of tactics from israel since monday, the sort of strikes.
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Killed, including 35 children, killed, including 35 children, and at least 1,600 others i urge you, take this warning seriously. Don t let hezbollah endanger your lives and the lives of your loved ones. Don t let hezbollah endanger lebanon. Please get out of harm s way now. But where to find safety in the middle of all this? explosion. Screaming. For one man, too late. My siblings and their children were all killed here, he says. The israeli army insists its air strikes are destroying weapons, some hidden in homes, and it accuses hezbollah of using civilians as human shields. 0n the roads from the south, a mass exodus. So many heading to beirut that the motorway became a one way system. Ahmed says everyone fled his village because of air strikes and destruction. There s no one left, he says, we took our belongings and went. So many new homeless now in this expanding war. In beirut, too, fear on the streets and a rush to get home. Are you feeling afraid? sure, mohammed tells me. I m afr
Are hezbollah terrorists. The cross border strikes have intensified after a series of exploding device attacks on hezbollah members were blamed on israel. 0ur chief international correspondent 0rla guerin has more from beirut. Explosion. Southern lebanon awoke to this. It looks like all out war. The israeli army says it hit 1,300 hezbollah sites today. There were gaza style warnings, telling residents to go, including from the israeli leader. Now, starting this morning the idf has warned you to get out of harm s way. I urge you, take this warning seriously. Don t let hezbollah endanger your lives and the lives of your loved ones. Don t let hezbollah endanger lebanon. Please get out of harm s way now. But where to find safety in the middle of all this? explosion. Screaming. For one man, too late. My siblings and their children were all killed here, he says. The israeli army insists its air strikes are destroying weapons, some hidden in homes, and it accuses hezbollah of using civilians