00:00Israeli airstrikes raining down once again on three neighbourhoods of Beirut.
00:04That is, Lebanon says that more than a million people have now been displaced in two weeks of fighting there.
00:10Israel confirming it's carried out those attacks, saying it was targeting Hezbollah.
00:14It comes as the leaders of five Western countries, France, Germany, Italy, the UK and Canada,
00:18say in a joint statement the large-scale Israeli ground operation in Lebanon must be averted.
00:24They're calling for a meaningful engagement by Israeli and Lebanese representatives
00:29to negotiate a sustainable political solution.
00:33At the same time, Israeli President Isaac Herzog saying that an unofficial French offer
00:37made by President Emmanuel Macron on the weekend to mediate is very positive.
00:41A little while ago I spoke to our reporter Claire Pakala, who's in Beirut for us.
00:46She gave us the latest on the strikes.
00:49Israel's ground operation expanding in the south of Lebanon.
00:53The aim, we understand, from the army is to create an additional layer of security
00:58for Israelis living in the north of Israel, so basically a buffer zone.
01:03Their aim is to eliminate terror threats, they say.
01:06That's the Israeli army speaking there.
01:08The Israeli army spokesperson in Arabic has also reissued an order for residents
01:14in the south of Lebanon, those south of the Zahrani River, to evacuate.
01:18That order was already given some days ago, but he has reissued it, saying that they are
01:25seriously in danger and that the continuing intensity of airstrikes will continue in that
01:30area, so anyone living south of the Zahrani River should evacuate.
01:33Some people, of course, as we know, aren't staying on who don't want to leave their homes.
01:38Now, Hezbollah, of course, sending rockets into the north of Israel, and some do get through
01:42Israeli air defences.
01:44We saw a Nahriyar, a town in the north of Israel, a fire broke out after a rocket hit
01:50the town there.
01:51Six people were wounded, including four children.
01:53Of course, Hezbollah also stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the skyline that
02:00you can see behind me, the Dakhia.
02:02We have also seen overnight at around 3 a.m. in the morning Israel striking targets there.
02:08Now, those strikes took place simultaneously, we understand the Israeli army saying, with
02:13strikes across Tehran, so simultaneous attacks on the southern suburbs of Beirut and Tehran.
02:19Of course, Hezbollah is funded by Iran, and all this happened.
02:24This kicked off.
02:25We're in this mess because after Israel and America struck Iran, killing the late Supreme
02:30Leader Ali Khamenei, after that Hezbollah sent rockets into Israel, and this is the response
02:36we're getting from Israel.
02:37So this is where we are right now.
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