its abilities and possibly risk and all out will in order to diminish hezbollah as much as they can. now this is the most important question in this whole, sol, solved these 3 days where we, they because they were 10 to the law. we're hitting only minutes, 3 objectives, and has one level was losing because it has one rather than advocate liberty d age right in half by controlling this guy. and have hundreds of aircraft with the status of thousands of thousands of bonds at the dispos that from the americans that the german and had one that cannot match this time to from baldwin, even if it is bone. be many tree objectives today. and here's what was not locate, the saw the bombarding the civilian targets that shift the whole game in these right. when the domestic from a dodge today is right, as giving on the civil day, the excuse the head of the law by bomb b, 6, b,

a 6, the 3 days with civilians to go and follow gets everybody is every. and that is a shift all the questions by the mistake these rubies made thinking they, they all didn't mean anything. the sort of the inside that they gave has one other possibility to retire good. again, civilians. and then these are you able to see the pay? eliza do do hang around, i'd like to get some more thoughts analysis from you on what we have just seen for now. thank you very much. olaja magneer, a security and military analysts joining us. we are just past 71700 gmc this value watching algae 0 live from doe ha. with the continuing coverage of al breaking news story on several massive explosions that have rocks 11 and specifically the dia district that is south of february. these are

a series of explosions. israel said that these, this was a precision strike that targeted as well as essential c'mon, headquarters in da here. the reuters news agency citing a source close to has bola says that the groups actually general has done us ra, a is alive, but we did speak to a witness just a little bit earlier on who is it a palestinian refugee camp? because the on protestant in refugee comes also inside the diet district. she said that though with 12 explosions, she was in shock. she said the situation was very chaotic. but this just, i mean, these images here just give you an idea of the scale of the magnitude of what has just happened. several, i mean, it looks as though several residential blocks have been completely level to the ground ambulances rescue work cuz are on the scene. but they were really, i mean,

in this area of di collection of neighborhoods, just on the outer limits of lebanese capital. they were, you have hundreds of thousands of civilians. it's very densely populated. and so inherently, an attack of this size and scale is going to be indiscriminate and will affect the civilian population, the money fountains of families that will be residing in this area right now. already we have reports that move and 700 people have been killed over all over the past week. as we have seen a, an intent intensifying bombing attacks by israel. this includes 50 children that speak to dose and jabari. she has been reporting from the route for us adults. are you receiving any information about what has happened tonight?

well, we haven't had any official statements from the loveliest health when it's through or how's the law about what has taken place. but what we can tell you is based on eye witness accounts of people that live in the area. they are describing scenes of a tour of destruction. many people say that's a they are, this is the biggest single attack they have seen in decades in this country. now we are also here is that it is such a strong. * multiple attack by israel is that it is very difficult to imagine anybody surviving this type of an attack. what we do know is that according to is really military. they have target, it's a, as well as command headquarters central command headquarters. and is a claim that this headquarter was basically taking place underneath these residential buildings about hezbollah has yet to issue a statement. but what is clear from the destruction is that this was a high value targets for as well. that's this kind of an attack, at least 10,

a bunker buster of the cells used to targets this and the headquarters of hezbollah, they are claiming would not have taken place if they didn't have somebody very high value in sites. now, we are still getting information from people at the see if it's from what we're hearing. it says on her of chaos and she are devastation as scenes of vehicles being a dug into the ground as a result of the impact of the glass. of course, this causes a very tense thought. this is not the 1st time here has been targeted by the israeli military in the past week. this is the 5th air strikes that we've seen being carried out by israel's type targeting high commanders, high level commanders of hezbollah, and they have a success been successful in illuminating assassinating some of them. that's not all of them. as in the process, they have killed thousands of civilians. many people have chosen to leave this

neighborhood as a result of the continuous bombardment by israel targeting has malott members in da here. according to locals were told me at least 80 percent of the population have left this area over the past week because they fear exactly this happening as well as total. this regard for civilian life in the process of targeting has well, our competitors. okay. doing so for now. thank you very much to us and your bi reporting to us from a route. just another development from the voices and use agency quoting as well as on our tv. they have said that one person was killed and 50 wounded in this is radius strike in the dia, district of bay route. but probably, we are like you to get an update. the only use it goes, these are just the 1st, it goes way, getting about casualties. as a result of this attack,

just the images that we're seeing a moment. you can see that ambulance workers rescue workers of rushed to the scene . you can see that there are cement that goes there as well. because when a building of this size in scale of residential building, a town block is leveled to the ground, there is going to be a great deal of debris and blocks of concrete. that will probably perhaps be many people who are buried under the rubble. and it will take some time to be able to reach everyone or to be able to get clarity on, on how many people has been injured in this, in this attack. okay, actually, there is also just another report. here i'm looking at is ready. prime minister said that he will return to israel this evening, this according to the office of benjamin netanyahu. i mean, where is it gives us security and political affairs unless he joins me now from

a route festival. what are you getting any information about vis attacking in dia, or why didn't to contact some of the law sources, but it didn't even they appear to not be very much aware of the details of what it was on folded, but i think it is safe to say that you're looking at a very high value target because your correspondent was mentioning his role to risk . this must damage. they must have been something, you know, very, a very big price which was involved stuff. so what you think the site, as i said, it's a higher value target, so the reports i mentioned has the last to credit general. so i get the cost on a certain life. i wouldn't find that to be thought interesting. but i been thinking for quite a while, the lease where i would say that sites on the side of the customer. so what we're hearing now is that these are great general, all the has, the law is alive and on the homes according to the reports which you probably have read. but i think that i didn't want to know is that the piece for hell is,

i think it's a cessation game we are use to use for our carrying out assessing nations office of the las vegas. but i think what we're seeing right now is something totally different. what we've seen right now is one thing up, the top brass, a possible law as a whole, and it's as if you have the, i am currently and they're trying to make for the blog collapse from the boss. so this is a new kind of security welfare. i think that it's a challenge. it is a big challenge for how's the blog domain questionnaire, major questionnaire as usual, sort of the 2 before is how more affordable are respond. will this be the game changing? because in these things throughout the destination, us, the last words on the original husband was of operations have been rather measured . and now the big question is, will this lead to this type of situation spilling out of control possible? lots of organizations find yes because we have cause presumably,

i mean that would, if they were to do that, that would give the is riley's a pretext to proceed with the, with a ground invasion. but i guess one of the key questions right now is whether or not has bullet goes for an oil out attack, but to actually already hash and we'll try and get, we'll try and get latest, go back a little bit later. it was joining us the from a route and just making some comments and reflections on the pressure of this. now places on has bella to respond. it's not clear how has bullet will respond whether or not it will perhaps escalate things. of course it has been the always has to take it. support has its constituents into consideration, but they are the week of potty in all of this. because while we speak about this sort of cross border, a rule between israel and hadn't, has part of the reality is that is really a tax on lebanon has been fond, great to,

and number and intensity. that's now speak to audi hashim who is entire, in southern lebanon. i mean, can you give us any further reaction? any other information you are getting about to in the, off them off of this attack and, and here, i don't know if the bus is going okay. well, that's some, that's already how sion has been reporting to us from tire in southern lebanon. and actually, the, this is why many of the is riley strikes have been taught, have been really focused on southern lebanon. but we have in recent days, seen as really a tax becoming much more expensive. they've been escalating attacks in the southern part of a root including this attack on down. yeah. but we've also seen a tax on folding, just north of bay route, and also in the eastern part of lebanon. and the because zeno holder are joins us on the phone. now i understand is i know you are at the scene of this attack. yes,

mariam. we have arrived at the scene of what really was an unprecedented attack. we are not able to um, to go live at the moment because there's a lot of tension on the ground. and the security situation is not allowing us to do so. we have been told journalists have been told to move away from the area. this attack was massive. i have covered a lot of aftermaths is really our strikes in this, in this southern suburbs of bay booth, but nothing like this. the smoke is still blowing. the area of devastation so large, so wide, we're talking about at least $6.00 to $7.00, building residential buildings level to the grounds of the security. the security perimeter. there is a security perimeter around the site of this attack. even the guards,

the men of this area are crying and they have told me to tell the world, this is what one of the man is standing here. he's a member of has the law. he said we are human beings, just like everybody else. we want to live our life, i saw dead children being put in ambulances and taken away. what have they done to deserve this? so this is how serious and massive this attack was multiple explosions. a series of error strikes that then just walk away with southern suburbs. baby southern suburbs is, is a large area where hundreds of thousands of people live. it was heard across the lebanese capital. people were calling each other, asking what happened, such a loud explosion that buildings shook kilometers away from the sites of the attack,

windows shattered and some buildings. so that situation is tense. at the moment there's, i'm not sure if it is still rescue operations because it's hard to see how anyone in this area could have survived a strike or strikes. like we saw some of the videos that have emerged on social media really shows the the intensity of, of this attack. this is very important the way you are finding it zayna, which is that very often when israel carries out these attacks, we've seen this in gaza, but also in loveland. and they say that these of precision strikes on has bolo strongholds. but the reality is that these of people, these are families, these, this is the civilian population. these all communities. and so inevitably when these attacks are carried out civilians,

innocent people are going to die. and you have just described a situation where children dead children were being placed. an ambulance is just if you can compare it, give us some context. i know what we have seen before, this part of a root, you know, in the 1980s they saw, said, mazda, because during the civil war, during the 15 years civil will also, we saw immense coming in da here in 2006, one. it was subjected to intense as rainy bombardment. how, how fearful of people feelings are uh, tonight of to of, to this attack? well, the lebanese people have seen rounds of conflict rounds of, or for, for many, many, many years in recent days. in fact, in the past 2 weeks when we entered this new phase that you like and the confrontation between as well and has full law. following those pager and walk,

you talk explosions of those walkie. talkies and pages were exploding and public places of people who are holding those walkie talkies and explosions were falling, falling on the ground bleeding. people saw the people in the who are in their car, so those children saw this. so there was a lot of trauma in the lebanese capital and across the country before this, the lebanese capital was largely spared from the ongoing confrontations along the border. people were so, you know, people were saying that is that the war was far away. if you like that, we are not affected by the past 2 weeks. people realize how close a war has now become. and even though this is a striking bay, the southern suburb switch, many people would call hezbollah stronghold. there is no doubt, as well as a presence here, no doubt,

as well as the court has lived here. but it's not just them. like we said, hundreds of thousands of people as we made our way to bed with southern suburbs we passed by a palestinian refugee camp. where is a good option. and we saw people the holding back suitcases leaving the area. the camp is adjacent to a baby with southern the suburbs, so people and then we saw as we made our way closer, we saw people standing along the highway. they moved out from, from the densely populated neighbors neighborhoods. inside a beta southern couple of people are afraid, people are scared of the explosion, brought back memories brought back memories of a previous wars of previous explosion. and now there is a real concern because they feel that there is no more red line such as well. has crossed all red lines. in fact it's has been crossing red lines for some time now. yes, mary. um yeah. and is you say, but you know what we've seen tonight,

what we've seen over the past week. it feels as though we are now in a new phase of this conflict. and we, we just, i say we use the word conflict and war kind of interchangeably zayna. but the reality is that, you know, for all it's effectiveness, you can't really compare hezbollah and its capabilities with the might of the and the capability of the as writing, naomi? yes, yes, of course, there is no doubt. first, we talk about the air superiority. they control the skies and that's why for hezbollah, a ground invasion would be to us the advantage. because then, as the law will be able to shift the balance of power, if it will inflict enough casualties among as rarely, soldiers, and this was their strategy back in 2006. it was them to defeat as well. it was the

1st $74.00 most. it was about surviving. and 2nd, it was about a war of attrition. that ensured that as rose would suffer, casualties would, which would put pressure on the government and as well to hold fire. so that was the strategy back then. and back then, hezbollah did survive after $34.00 days of bombardments, of, of intensive book board meant that not only targeted areas, whereas while i was present, they targeted infrastructure bridges of the day. they, they from the airport, they blockaded seaports 11 on was, was under siege and that's more and it, and conclusively and hezbollah survived that we heard this really prime minister benjamin off a yahoo maybe just minutes or before this massive attack. and they with southern suburbs say that this is about this showing has been lost. so has he changed

as israel change the were objectives, which were the stated war objectives which were to return residents, the northern israel? or is this now a full on war to destroy has below, they have been targeting their come after deer and baby with southern suburbs and physicians got up and quote, unquote, i have to say position strikes because civilians were killed and those, those attacks to kill their commanders because they've gone after their infrastructure today, we notice a slight change in tactics hitting areas or supply routes, logistical routes, that hezbollah uses in southern lebanon, in the east of the country. so they have, that's what they have been trying to do. we still do not know the target of this massive attack, but people here are saying it must be a high value target to justifies such a massive, massive attack,

a series of air strikes. i cannot begin to stress those multiple explosions. how it's rock a city, a city where millions of people where in shock of not knowing we, when we spoke to said it's right next to us, it happened right next to us. those are the same words we heard back when the x, the one there was an explosion that they would court. so no doubt. now, we have to see 1st of all and what was the target? these really are me saying that they could, they hit a command center and underground command center, and then we have to see how hezbollah is going to be on. i think it is quite interesting to talk about how has about his reaction has been since israel launch this, this intensive and expensive air campaign. on monday, it has all of a response so far, or it's military operations have been very much pale in comparison to what it

is able to do. it's sent messages. messages that this is able to escalate, but it chooses the escalation stock will that change out after this us. and the cause of watching to see was as follows, will respond, but also the lebanese government. can you describe to us that zain, of the state of the lebanese government right now, and whether they are likely to give us some sort of reaction on statement this evening. while there is no doubt the lebanese government will condemn the attack, they will call it's undoubtedly a criminal aggression like they have called previous attacks and described previous attacks carried out by this really army in previous days, previous weeks and previous months. but the lebanese, our government is not directly involved in this conflict. and it is even

a care taker administration with no full executive powers. because there is a political crisis in this country and the countries without the president a deeply divided and polarized society and deeply divided a political landscape. so the lebanese government will no doubt condemn this act of aggression. i can tell you what people here are calling it. they're calling it's a massacre. we still, we still do not have any numbers. we do not have casualty figures. we've seen ambulances come and go. we've seen the scale of destruction. the residential buildings level to the ground. a few days ago we heard levon on foreign minister say that he was disappointed by the position of the us administration thing. it wasn't strong enough and that if any party is able to stop this war,

it is the us administration. but the lebanese government feels that the position taken by the, by the administration has at least at the least it's very weak. okay. um, so is there in the background but no, it's okay. we can keep talking, we will just walk towards our car because we're not allowed to stay here. dana, what do you see? is there a whole came back? well, fire trucks, ambulance isn't the distance we have been told to leave the area close to the the sides of the those air strikes. i can see so smoke, so they're still smoking. this guy and a lot of journalists are here. but like i said, we've been told to leave the area as you can understand, this is a very tense situation because people really are still in shock. they still haven't come to terms on what they heard, what they saw and what has happened. and they still do not know who the targets was

. i'm approximately now let's say almost a kilometer from the size of the attack. i see destruction around. 4 because the car windows and his excavator is being brought in, an excavator is now being brought in to the sides. so let's do this. yes, i'm sorry. i don't know if you can still hear me. yes i can. they're bringing. yes . i says, i tell you what i mean, why don't we need is just a couple of minutes to see what information you can gather in the area. you know, it's very difficult terrain the now, but we will, we will come back to you to continue the conversation. let's speak to elijah magneer is a military and security analyst. he joins us from brussels. he's been following the story very closely. i'm not sure if you had a chance to to listen to what zeno was telling us. she is there at the site all of this attack. but you know, elijah,

is really officials has spoken very openly in the past about the approach and da here that they would make no distinction between civilian and military infrastructure. is that something that needs to be taken into consideration here that these, these attacks against the video infrastructure is perhaps very much part of the strategy. it's not an unintended effect. all right, well that, well, well let's be to elijah magneer. just a moment. we'll get a connection to him, but he has been giving us some analysis on and you said something very interesting . just audio, ron about was the, this is the point which is really calculations have changed as to whether this is the point to which they have chosen to use that capabilities in order to move

against hezbollah in a definitive way. and so elijah, i was just asking you about the kind of scale of this attack we have been speaking about. we've been speaking to a correspondent, a inmate route to is that she describes scenes of arctic chaos. she folk described the children who had been dead, children have been taken to ambulances. can you talk to us about remarks that we've heard in previous years from is riley officials regarding their approach to da? here it is 2006. i've covered the wall on the ground and i was in the south, looked up and on and watching also the war a god. so it is all the use that will be 3 days. there is no difference between them, back them and come back to their full, the da here. the train that draws,

introduced by these reeves consists in bringing down destroying, raising on the ground and similarly and buildings, to intimidate the population. and, and that again, that he does, it doesn't work in the afternoon. that doesn't wife, can you guys? because the resistance is fall of the population. and there is most of all to the population, never that at the same style of these read it remains as it is and the food is away . very cautious, even if they have it in the past few weeks to manders will testable, uh, a new reservation area. thought they would flood shopping and getting a civilian one, being 85 and bringing the whole thing on the ground is to me that they are trying to find behind the queues of collateral damage. was headed to a certain point accepted because it has tens of thousands of civilians on the,

on the roads. they were already done and the displays and not wanting to open why the war with these treaties. but what happened today age for me is really business as usual. they consider it is the right to can even 7 years at. ringback a certain number, depending on the high side you all the target, they want to assess and they can get up to 100 civilians. and that is tolerated in these really on the doctrines because they are comfortable and they don't have moran and the grounds. and no rules for the root. so the rule, so this set that stick to that was not very tied to the for these readings because it did not reach the objective to assess and they sat in astronomy last. so the news of the assassination of such a need a good cover. wow. all these videos that are good. so even the doc on the sector is

essentially the area then with the standard city in the middle of the year that inhabited by more or less $1000000.00 people regardless though so have been internally displaced. so the invention to civilians is very obviously that as long as think this is when these red ones saw adopting this doctrine from now long because they've stopped it. they open it up with 4 to 6 speed. they complete that around and they will not pull back from that along because it's something that they had initiated in this whole. they've done that in the south. and then the big valley against the homes are present a lot with the entire family, but they did not go to target in massive civilian area as they have done in 2006. i think this is the beginning of, of a long roll. and then dogs today because many people in many area they know the

area where the, the so called is off has been law. and normally they are, they on.