Israel hits Tehran and Beirut with 'simultaneous strikes'
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Little. Little prices, yes. This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Celia Hatton, and at 1600 GMT on Tuesday, the 3rd of March, these are our main stories. Israel says it's carrying out simultaneous strikes in Tehran and Beirut.
What are the details of Israel's simultaneous strikes in Tehran and Beirut?
With the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran threatening the oil and gas supply chain, it's not only Middle Eastern countries facing an uncertain future.
South Korea needs oil and gas to run its power generators and also to feed its enormous petrochemical industry. It's a huge part of South Korean economy.
And we go to Nigeria to look at deep divisions within the Anglican Church over the appointment of the first female Archbishop of Canterbury. Day four of the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and day four, too, of the fallout from that conflict. We're focusing this edition on what's happening in the region, but also how the war is being viewed far away from its original Iranian targets. Israel has launched a new wave of airstrikes on Tehran and on the Lebanese capital, Beirut. The Israeli military has held a briefing. Nadav Shoshani is a spokesperson.
Our forces, along with the U.S. Armed Forces, continue degrading the Iranian regime's military capabilities. We have focused on targeting ballistic missile launchers, command and control centers, underground bunkers, and, of course, key Iranian regime leadership figures. Overnight, IDF troops were positioned in southern Lebanon at several points near the border area as part of an enhanced forward defense posture. Let me be clear, this is not a ground maneuver into Lebanon. It is a tactical step to create an additional layer of security for the residents of northern Israel.
Hundreds of people have fled their homes in Beirut. And Israel has warned that thousands of people in villages near the border must also go. The Lebanese army is reported to be pulling back from positions in the south. Our correspondent Lina Sinjab is in Beirut.
I've just come down to the promenade on the seaside of Beirut. This is an area that's normally known for people enjoying the seaside. But now... It's filled with families that fled from southern Beirut. You can see them lining up with their cars, with their clothes, with their bags. They fled from the bombing. We're not far from south of Beirut. In fact, you can hear the bombing here by the seaside. And sometimes you can even hear the drones, the Israeli drones that are roving over the city and attacking targets in south of Beirut. People here are angry, are frustrated. They've lived through this. In 2024, when Israel launched its full-fledged attack on Hezbollah, eliminating its top leaders and crippling the group, and now they're living it again, their homes that have been destroyed in 2024 are still in rubble, and now they have to flee again.
Lina Sinjab in Beirut. Our Middle East correspondent Yolan Nel is in Jerusalem. She too took us back to 2024.
You have to go back to the 2024 ceasefire deal that was supposed to have ended a year of intense cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese armed group. That went on in parallel to the war in Gaza. Now, that... really only saw a partial withdrawal of Israeli forces. They did remain in some positions in the very south of Lebanon. But gradually, the Lebanese army was supposed to be taking over there and pushing out any remnants of Hezbollah, stopping them from regrouping there. But now, what the Israeli military is basically saying is that it's trying to present this not as a new ground incursion, but creating a buffer zone to protect the Israeli citizens who live in the north of the country from Hezbollah attacks.
Remember that some 60,000 people had to leave their homes in the north of Israel, and some of them have only recently gone back because of that fighting that went on there previously. And there are concerns the Israeli military has said about a kind of cross-border raid, attempts... by Hezbollah to conduct such a raid or indeed, you know, that they could get closer to the border to continue with their rocket fire because they have already been in the north of Israel since Hezbollah really sort of announced that it was entering into this new conflict.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–1:10
2
What are the details of Israel's simultaneous strikes in Tehran and Beirut?
1:10–7:50
3
How is the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran affecting global oil and gas supplies?
7:50–18:20
4
What is the current situation for civilians in Beirut amid the conflict?
18:20–26:54
5
What historical context is relevant to the current Israeli-Hezbollah tensions?
26:54–28:08
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