00:01Hezbollah says eight of its members were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the eastern Lebanese
00:06region of Baalbek on Friday, including several local officials. One of those dead was Hossein
00:12Yaghi, son of Mohamed Yaghi, a Hezbollah founder and close aide to the late leader Hassan Nasrallah,
00:19who was killed by Israel in September 2024. Israel also confirmed on Saturday that its
00:25strikes had eliminated several Hezbollah members in what it says were three command centers in Baalbek.
00:32The IDF said in a post that those members were ramping up the group's readiness and allegedly
00:37planning attacks against Israel, but provided no evidence. Lebanon's health ministry earlier noted
00:44that ten people were killed in the strikes, including three children, and a further 24 people
00:49were wounded. Doctors in the nearby Riaq hospital confirmed that they had received the bodies of
00:5510 people and were treating 21 others who had sustained injuries. Hospital officials said
01:01that two of those killed and five of the injured were foreign nationals from Syria and Ethiopia.
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