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India Today’s Ashraf Wani reports from Beirut, Lebanon, as tensions sharply escalate in West Asia. On Sunday, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) bombed the Asamiyan Bridge, partially crippling a key highway in what appears to be an effort to cut off supply lines linked to Hezbollah, including routes used by NGOs.

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00:03i am currently standing on one of the busiest highways of the lebanon this is the coastal
00:10line highway which connects beirut city with the southern parts of the lebanon this highway goes
00:17all along the mediterranean sea and finally reaches tyre city but on sunday afternoon idf
00:25bombed one of the bridges kasamia bridge on the highway and made the highway now partially
00:37defunct because now the supplies and the people and the vehicles could not reach south lebanon
00:44this was a kind of strategy for which for last many days the idea was working that how the supply
00:52line
00:52for the hezbollah as well as for all the ngos working with hezbollah could be cut off finally
00:58on sunday afternoon this highway has been now no more uh for uh vehicular traffic towards the southern
01:09lebanon actually after the saturday uh attacks by the iran uh on the nuclear sites as well as
01:17on the arad city in the israel the defense minister on sunday morning has ordered the idea
01:26to initiate and expand and escalate the operation against hezbollah in south lebanon it seems that
01:35part two of gaza is now being repeated here in the south lebanon as we have earlier seen
01:42during during last two years first the areas uh were equated in the gaza then bombed and finally
01:52then ground invasion was made by the idf in gaza same is being repeated here in the southern lebanon
02:01where first of all all the people had been told to evacuate from their villages uh almost all 20
02:09kilometers from the northern border of israel then uh the uh targets of hezbollah were attacked and
02:18finally the area has now been cut off from the rest of country during the coming days we will see
02:28that
02:29the idf will make the ground invasion in the south lebanon for which they are planning and working for last
02:38three weeks ashrafani for india today on beirut tire highway in south lebanon
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