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
Welcome to bbc News Broadcasting to viewers Around The World. And we start in the Middle East where fears of an all out regional conflict are growing. Lebanese officials say more than 490 people have been killed, including 35 children, and at least 16 Hundred others injured in israeli strikes on the south of the country. The Israel Defense forces say theyve hit 800 positions held by the iranian backed group hezbollah. It says its fired dozens of rockets at israel. The Cross Border strikes have intensified after a series of exploding Device Attacks on hezbollah members were blamed on israel. Ourfirst report come from our senior international correspondent, Orla Guerin whos in 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 Harms Way. I urge you, t
Block of flats in the lebanese capital beirut on friday. Ibrahim aqil is considered the most high profile member of the group to be killed in the current conflict with the us having had a multimillion dollar bounty on his head. Israel says the targeted strikes killed around ten hezbollah military commanders. The lebanese health ministry says 14 people were killed and more than 60 injured. In response to the attack, hezbollah has called the killing of mr aqil a crime, and said israel will pay the price. From beirut, our senior international correspondent orla guerin has been reporting on the attack. Explosion. This footage captures the moment of the attack, in the heartland of hezbollah. Explosion. The skyline looks like a city at war. Israel hit hard, without warning, in the densely populated residential district of dahiya. Calling this a precision strike, the target was the veteran hezbollah military leader ibrahim aqil. Israel said he had been eliminated, along with about ten comma
Ibrahim aqil is considered the most high profile member of the group to be killed in the current conflict, with the us having had a multimillion dollar bounty on his head. Well, israel says the targeted strikes killed around 10 hezbollah military commanders. The lebanese health ministry says 14 people were killed and more than 60 injured. In response to the attack, hezbollah has called the killing of mr aqil a crime and said israel will pay the price. From beirut, our senior international correspondent 0rla guerin reports on the attack. Explosion this footage captures the moment of the attack, in the heartland of hezbollah. Explosion the skyline looks like a city at war. Israel hit hard, without warning, in the densely populated residential district of dahiya. Calling this a precision strike, the target was the veteran hezbollah military leader ibrahim aqil. Israel said he had been eliminated, along with about ten commanders of an elite unit. At the time of the strike, aqil and the com
We start in the middle east, where israel has launched fresh air strikes in southern lebanon, in what Security Sources there say, is some of the most intense bombing since the start of the Gaza War in october. These are the latest pictures of israeli strikes on the Southern Lebanese Border Village of rihan. The Israeli Military says its warplanes struck hundreds of hezbollah sites, including a weapons storage facility. It all comes after the leader of hezbollah a prescribed Terrorist Organisation by some western governments gave his first public reaction to the wave of attacks across lebanon. At least 37 people have been killed and thousands injured by Exploding Pagers and walkie talkies. Hassan nasrallah described the attacks as a massacre and said it could be called a declaration of war. Daniel de simone reports. With this weeks deadly explosions in lebanon, the conflict between Israel And Hezbollah has entered a dangerous new stage. Hezbollah s leader gave his first response to th