Lebanon says 13 killed in Israeli strike near southern Beirut hospital

 

Lebanon has seen one of the most intense 

nights of Israeli attacks in weeks in 

southern Beirut there was a strike next 

to the biggest government Hospital in 

the country in which four people were 

killed including a child the Lebanese 

Health Ministry says 24 people were also 

wounded let's show you live pictures of 

the Lebanese Capital Bay rout Columns of 

smoke have been filling the sky over 

previous hours the IDF says it intends 

to strike the finances of Hezbollah 

Hezbollah Contin used to fire Rockets 

into Northern Israel the Israeli 

military also says it's identified a 

bunker concealed under another bayroot 

hospital that it says holds hundreds of 

millions of dollars worth cash and gold 

their spokesman reare Admiral Daniel 

hagari said the money was being used to 

finance hezbollah's attacks on Israel 

and provided these reconstructions 

saying the bunker is located directly 

under the hospital in the heart of 

Beirut no further Evidence was provided 

and the hospital's Administration has 

denied the claims Israel said it was 

monitoring the compound but wouldn't 

strike the hospital 

itself here are some pictures from 

Israeli strikes overnight this is babda 

a suburb of Beirut Israel says it's 

hitting targets that are linked to 

Hezbollah our correspondent in Beirut 

Jonathan head told me the strikes caused 

Panic there's been a second night of 

multiple strikes here in Beirut um bit 

confused using for people living here 

there were warnings to seven 

neighborhoods um one of them uh a small 

fishing former fishing Village a little 

Coastal Community right next to the 

international airport has not been 

targeted before and nobody knows what 

the target there would be so there's a 

lot of panic people trying to get out 

it's quite a poor neighborhood um the 

air strikes came in pretty quickly 

afterwards four of them and then that 

strike close to the the biggest public 

Hospital Rafi hereri University Hospital 

uh it seems to have been tar a building 

next to it uh there's always a lot of 

people near the hospital as you can 

imagine there are also displaced people 

there so quite High casualty counts four 

people killed one of them a child um you 

know we we've been told by the Israelis 

that they're now going after hezbollah's 

Financial infrastructure we saw the 

night before attacks on branches of his 

buller's deao bank um we don't know 

whether last night's um strikes were at 

a continuation of that or a move to in a 

different direction um as as you said 

there is that rather dramatic 

announcement that there's a secret 

bunker after another really big public 

hospital alel um and we'll have to wait 

till our colleagues and other 

journalists come back from the tour of 

that hospital this morning to see 

whether they saw any evidence of that or 

you know I think at the end we're just 

going to end up with the hospital 

denying it and the Israelis insisting 

it's there um everyone here is very 

nervous they at this stage it's very 

hard to calculate what the next Israeli 

targets will be given how they've now 

widened their camp to try to dismantle 

his bullas networks and it's really its 

presence in society once you go beyond 

military into attacking the financial 

infrastructure this is how hisbah has 

such influence it's almost a shadow 

government here in Lebanon it provides a 

lot of welfare to people and of course 

Israel alleges all that money which it 

says comes from Iran also funds 

hezbollah's military activities and 

attacks on Northern Israel and how 

sustain Jonathan have hezbollah's 

attacks been on Israel coming the other 

way well they're sustained in the sense that 

they they're pretty much the same level 

almost every day um Israel does appear 

to be able to intercept most of them 

we've I know there've been um explosions 

um in many parts of Israel this morning 

um so we haven't counted the number of 

rockets going across hisbah has said 

it's targeted an Israeli Naval Base 

until now in most cases uh the hezb 

attacks have not caused huge amounts of 

damage and and and relatively like 

casual um but the fact the fact that they're 

still firing Rockets um reminds the 

Israelis that their goal of completely 

destroying his bu's military 

capabilities has not been achieved which 

of course means that the Israeli 

Campaign which includes this uh rather 

slow ground operation down near the 

border that that operation will 

continue well just in the last few 

minutes we've heard from the Israel 

Israeli defense minister yev Galant that 

that bank alad alhassan bank has been 

added to a list of groups designated by 

Israel as terrorist organizations so uh 

that is the uh Branch or those that's 

the name of the bank many branches have 

been targeted uh there are several in 

southern Beirut according to Israel and 

uh they claim that Hezbollah is financed 

through that bank the designation is 

part of a wider campaign by Israel to 

Target the economic resources of 

Hezbollah but just in the last few 

minutes yoav Galant the defense minister 

adding that bank to a list of groups 

designated by Israel as terrorist 

organizations now the UN Aid agency 

operating in Gaza says the Israeli 

authorities are still preventing 

medicine and food from reaching People 

Under Siege in the north footage shot in 

the aftermath of an attack by Israel on 

a refugee camp in jabal shows a nurse 

running in panic between the dead and 

wounded at a un School Israel says its 

offensive is aimed at stopping Hamas 

from regrouping in Northern Gaza our 

International editor Jeremy Bowen has 

seen the video a warning his report 

shows extremely graphic 

images Palestinian First Responders went 

to collect Bodies In A Lull in Israel's 

offensive in jabalia and the rest of 

Northern Gaza the UN says gaza's 

nightmare is intensifying a worsening 

humanitarian Ian crisis amid what it 

calls Relentless Israeli 

strikes this was filmed this morning by 

a nurse called nabila in the moments 

after an Israeli strike on a un School 

in jabalia used as a shelter by 

civilians close to panic she tries to 

tell this woman to be calm saying I have 

nothing to stop the 

bleeding she turns back to help the 

other casualties she is the only medic 

there children are dead a woman's leg 

has been blown 

off and then she runs to get her medical 

back a child says please help my sister 

is dying Naila hasn't got much a few basic 

wound dressings use this she 

says one of the women says my children 

are gone look at them back down the stairs past

 dead children and then she screams when she 

sees the dead body of an elderly man she 

recognizes Northern Gaza this morning 

just after an air strike from a vantage 

point a few miles away in 

Israel it's a public holiday here this 

is a popular place to observe the war 

Israelis believe the killing and hostage 

taken by Hamas and the way Palestinians 

voted for them makes the war in Gaza and 

the others that followed necessary and 

just if they would return the hostages 

then I would have what to feel for them 

in the meantime there's nothing I can 

feel for them they've started this they 

entered Israel they attacked us and all 

this is the results of their initial 

actions a short drive away close to the 

Gaza border it was a family day out for 

Israelis who believe the war has given 

them the chance to recreate a very 

different Gaza they want to restore 

Jewish settlements inside the Gaza Strip 

that the Israeli government removed in 

2005 these people know what they want 

when eventually there's a cease fire in 

Gaza the Israeli government has only 

really said what it doesn't want it 

doesn't want any kind of governance that 

looks like progress towards a 

Palestinian State now that is a problem 

for its Western allies the Americans the 

British and others because they believe 

a Palestinian State alongside Israel is 

the only way to stabilize the region and 

not have Perpetual 

War Anita toer in the blue hat brought 

her family up on a farming settlement in 

the Gaza Strip for her leaving was a 

gross Injustice I played her a report I 

did about her departure 19 years years 

ago this is an integral part of the 

state of Israel since that day in 2005 

they've dreamt about a return and now 

they see Palestinians forced out of 

large areas of Gaza and are pushing to 

replace them I I think we have an 

opportunity to build much more than we 

had before I think we should build build 

cities in some of the places we should 

bring many many more uh of of Israel's 

population at the Gaza Strip I think 

those people in the Gaza Strip and there 

are a lot that want to leave that want 

to leave why is Egypt and Israel not 

allowing them to leave and go to 

Europe the bomb shelters where Israelis 

fled from Hamas have been made into 

memorials to the dead and to the 

hostages this is where many were 

cornered and 

killed inside Memorial candles where 

they died outside they've posted their 

biographies the war is changing the 

Middle East in ways no no one fully 

understands yet and it's widening and 

escalating Jeremy Bowen BBC News in 

southern 

Israel well as concerns about the 

humanitarian crisis in Northern Gaza 

grows the US Secretary of State Anthony 

blinkin has just arrived in Israel he's 

released five priorities to try to end 

the war firstly talking to Israel and 

others about how to end the war in Gaza 

including bringing home all the Israeli 

hostages he'll also discuss a 

postconflict day after plan with Israel 

he wants to review humanitarian 

assistance to Gaza and this is after the 

US gave Israel 30 days to take steps or 

risk some military assistance being cut 

off by the US Mr blinkin wants to try to 

discuss ways to get a resolution to the 

war with Hezbollah he'll also discuss 

Israel's expected retaliation against 

Iran his visit to the Middle East comes 

after the White House says it's deeply 

concerned about the leak of a a pair

of Profoundly grouped insight reports

portraying Israel's arrangements for a

retaliatory strike on Iran the reports

showed up on wire at the end of the week

counting satellite pictures and

characterized examination our reporter

Jonah Fisher is in Jerusalem he told me

more about blinken's visit and what to

expect we're expecting Anthony blinken

to show up here in Israel in the following

hour or so um and desires to be very

Straightforward are not high uh that he will be

ready to push things ahead as far as

accomplishing harmony in one or the other

 Gaza or in

southern Lebanon this excursion um was

imagined last week in the prompt

repercussions of the killing of Yaya Sina

the Hamas chief in Gaza I think

there was an expectation by then in the

US and in Western capitals

that it could give some kind of

opening for discussions to

restart Maybe to move to PE

some kind of truce trade with

prisoners maybe in the day days since

then well that has truly retreated as a

probability not least since individuals

have understood that with hamas'

initiative having been successfully

killed uh it's extremely hard to strike

any kind of arrangement uh there yet

 additionally the

sense that Israel actually feels that it's

got um military goals that it needs

to accomplish both in Gaza and in uh

Lebanon we saw new strikes uh short-term

on beut so uh it will be

very challenging for Anthony blinkin

he will be here in Israel first then he

will move uh to different nations uh

around the Center East maybe the most

sensible thing he could expect uh

here is to attempt to get some advancement in

terms of getting helpful Guide uh

into Gaza where um the circumstance is

quite desperate in certain areas especially

in the North and the UN has discussed

quite frightful circumstances there Jonah

fiser.