00:00Three UN peacekeepers have been killed in the south of Lebanon in the past 24 hours.
00:06France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrault has requested this Monday an emergency meeting
00:10of the UN Security Council following what he's described as the extremely serious incidents
00:15targeting UN peacekeepers in Lebanon.
00:18The International Unifil Force has confirmed the deaths earlier this evening.
00:22Two killed in an explosion, the source of which remains as yet unconfirmed, in Bani Haiyan
00:27in the Majahoun region.
00:28This then a total of three so far, two this Monday.
00:32The first, though, was an Indonesian soldier killed in an Israeli airstrike overnight.
00:38An Israeli airstrike on residential buildings in Beirut's southern suburbs killed at least
00:42three Hezbollah members this Monday, this according to Lebanese Security Services.
00:47Israel's Prime Minister said he wants to increase strikes on the south of the country to stop
00:51Hezbollah's rocket attacks.
00:53At least 1,247 people have been killed since March 2nd.
00:58Hezbollah's raids started this most recent upsurge in the cross-border conflict.
01:04This from Olivia Bezos.
01:09The second fatal attack on UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon in just 24 hours.
01:15Two more peacekeepers were killed this Monday.
01:17This follows the death of another peacekeeper on Sunday.
01:20He was killed when a projectile struck a UN position.
01:23Now investigations into the origin of these blasts are underway and the international condemnation
01:29has been both swift and sharp.
01:31But these are not isolated incidents.
01:33They are part of a visible escalating pattern of violence against protected personnel across
01:38south Lebanon.
01:39In just the last few days, three Lebanese journalists were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
01:45Meanwhile, over 50 healthcare workers have been killed since the beginning of this war.
01:50Analysts are increasingly describing this as a Gaza-style strategy, a systemic
01:54degradation of living conditions.
01:57By targeting first responders and destroying critical infrastructure,
02:00including the major bridges over the Litani River, the south is being hollowed out.
02:06The UN warns these strikes have effectively isolated over 150,000 people,
02:12cutting off their only lifelines for food, fuel and medicine.
02:15This physical isolation now meets a new political reality.
02:19On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu officially ordered the army to expand
02:24the security buffer zone, despite sweeping evacuation orders having already
02:29displaced over one million people across southern Lebanon.
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