00:01Israel pounded Beirut on Friday in an expanding conflict with Iran-backed Hezbollah that has
00:07sent tens of thousands of Lebanese fleeing their homes. Everyone in Beirut's densely populated
00:13southern suburbs was given Israeli orders to leave. Civilians in parts of southern and eastern
00:18Lebanon have also been told to evacuate. It is a major expansion of the war against Iran that it
00:24began a week ago alongside the United States. Lebanon was pulled into the war on Monday when
00:30Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel to avenge the killing of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
00:36that ignited a new Israeli offensive against what is Iran's most powerful regional ally.
00:42The United Nations has warned that the number of displaced people in Lebanon is expected to
00:46rapidly increase with about a hundred thousand already cramming shelters.
00:54Jamal Seyfeddin who fled Beirut's southern suburbs said people were sleeping on the street in cars
01:00and on the beach. Israeli tanks and troops were visible operating in a bombed out village in
01:05southern Lebanon. Hundreds of Israeli troops were also seen setting up fortifications on the Israeli
01:11side of the border fence. Israel has intervened in Lebanon repeatedly over decades, most recently in
01:18a campaign that weakened Hezbollah in 2024. But the ferocity of Friday's strikes had little precedent
01:25happened even in the long history of war in the Lebanese capital.
01:36until now stay at the beginning of war, now,
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