From the United Nations, where the Un Secretary general Antonio Guterres said violence in lebanon must stop now, he is gravely concerned by the dramatic escalation of events In Beirut in the last 2a hours, this cycle of violence must stop and all sites must step back from the brink of war. The people of lebanon, israel, and the wider region cannot afford an all out war. Have a Security Correspondent Frank Gardner reports on the latest escalation of conflict between israel and hezbollah. Heavy artillery fire. A devastating blow inflicted by israel, hitting the heart of hezbollah s Command Centre In Beirut. Within hours, the israeli military announced they had eliminated, as they put it, the groups leader. Hassan nasrallah had been Secretary General of hezbollah for 32 years, overseeing its growth into the worlds most heavily armed non state army. He was born in lebanon in 1960, growing up In Beirut s eastern bourj hammoud district. He took over the leadership in 1992 when his predecesso
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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Bret good evening. Welcome to washington. I am bret baier. The Bidenharris Administration is sending what it calls a small number of additional u. S. Troops to the Middle East. This comes as the israeli offensive against hezbollah terrorists in lebanon is expanding tonight. Hundreds of Air Strikes have been lost with Israel Warning residents of Southern Lebanon to stay away from hezbollahs Weapons Storage sites. Lebanons Health Ministry says more than 490 people have been killed so far and the most devastating barrage since the two fought 18 years ago. Fox Team Coverage Tonight with the Middle East on the brink. Jacqui heinrich at the White House with about the administration is saying about the growing conflict in the region good Mike Tobin live in tel aviv. Good evening, mike. After almost a year in which israel says 9, 9,000 Rockets E Air force responded striking at some 1300 targets in the south lebanon. As a Defense Minister booted, to demolish what has been built over the last 20