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Oct 2024
46m 29s

Israeli airstrikes resume in Lebanon

Bbc World Service
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Israeli warplanes pounded the city of Nabatiyeh in south Lebanon today. The Lebanese health ministry said six people were killed, there, in strikes on municipal buildings, with a local mayor reported dead. The United Nations has warned of a catastrophic humanitarian crisis in Lebanon as huge numbers of people are displaced.

Also in the programme: A BBC reporter returns to his home and birthplace in Sudan which is in the midst of a civil war; and we hear from the first visitors to a new museum celebrating the wonders of ancient Egypt.

(Picture: Civil defence members of the Islamic Health Authority work at a site damaged by an Israeli strike in Qana, southern Lebanon on October 16, 2024. Credit: REUTERS)

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