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as the hollows of or forward towards the ship. sorry. go ahead. go ahead. no, go ahead. okay. yeah, i was just saying back to a question. will they sustain it? i mean this in the, the, the, the, the hits and the last few weeks. again, there is no reason i wouldn't want to sort of diminish them or, or make flights of them they, they were serious hits. and what's your major partner, hezbollah lee? hello, are you from it? i thank you for the support they want from, but what they want from the time to stand what you're saying. and i think, and that's actually what my question was aim to drawing out of you, which is he has sustained far, far worse. but people who remember 2000 and so yes, entire parts of da here were a level. and in fact, what the way these really military conducted itself at the time and the way it chose to conduct that particular offensive, gave its name to what's called the da here, a doctrine. which is essentially the idea that israel is going to inflict
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a very heavy uh, damage on a civilian targets and the idea being hit the infrastructure. it takes a lot to try and cut them from their support base. it didn't work clearly didn't work, but that was the doctrine and how the job or former corresponded with the sunday times and author of his beloved, born with a vengeance. thank you so much for your perspective. it is now just past 23, g and t. and if you are just joining us, let's recap our breaking news story out a bit. ruth has been unfolding throughout this evening with new developments over the past hour. israel has struck the densely populated suburb of da here in the south of the city, again with multiple airstrikes. now these are the latest pictures of the area where israel's military says that a striking sights belonging to has belong. it claims that group has stored an empty ship missiles in the area. the latest strikes follow the heavy as bombardment by as real of southern they were yet extra. i hit several residential blocks in the da
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here neighborhood. the explosion could be heard throughout the city of 2 and a half 1000000 people. israel says it was attacking a has block command center. as dorothy jabari reports the as hell over b roots at the hopes that israel received please to stop. it's escalating attacks 11 on were shattered. 10 massive airstrikes targeted buildings in di suburb, south of the capital. the aftermath in this residential neighborhood was devastating. the rescuers and nearby residents rushed to search the rubble for survivors. dot jo has been hit by israel several times this week by fridays attack is by far the largest to shut up. that will be the hudgens in the strike. felt like an earthquake of the ground was shaking there. i was on the 7th floor in the southern suburbs and saw
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a strange mass of fire. the entire building was shaking and it has affected me psychologically. i know the more that may have, you know, some of this was a painful strike with innocent civilians affected. what can we say? there are a bunch of criminals, 11. these are not fighting them all booming buildings like they all have. you look at the israel's military, what's worth to justify bombing a heavily populated civilian neighborhood, saying it struck and major has the command center please. by the central headquarter was intentionally built under residential buildings in the heart of the document they route. as far the police bought a strategy of using the lebanese people as human shields. but it's clear many of the victims in da here, home to about 700000 people are civilians. the u. s. has been pushing israel to negotiate a sci fi with hezbollah, and says the strike on here one which you've that a. but the secretary of state anthony brewington was still quick to defend israel's
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actions. the question is not, this is real, have a right to deal with existential threats with security and enemies across its uh, its borders with the of out in 10 to destroys real force. it does. but the question is, what is the best way to achieve its objectives? we believe the diplomatic course is the best one. israel says it strikes 11, all are aimed at stopping as well as attacks and allowing displaces riley's to return to the north. but with the latest strikes on southern bare roads, israel has once again and made it clear that bobbing residential buildings is the obstacle to achieving that coal door safari algebra 0. let's take a closer look at the location of israel's latest attacks on the southern bay route down here is a densely populated suburb in the south of the city home to about 700000 people. the neighborhood was largely destroyed by the is really military during the 2006
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war 11 on the suburb of da here has been hit by is really a strikes 5 times this week alone. these really army is killed at least to hezbollah commanders and it strikes dozens of civilians have also been killed in these attacks. officers of the marsden is in a room for us oliver. i believe since the last time i spoke to you is when we saw live hits on da here one after the other. i saw at least 3 or 4. there may have been some that we didn't pick up on our camera, was the latest. what can you tell us? yes, exactly, since you're not last. and as we was fishing though, hits were still on growing up in multiple hits. now, over the last 7 hours, the new starts are going around 6 37 o'clock local time with that 1st message strike on the head. the very densely populated area in south favored this neighborhood. that is to civilian area. there are schools that are hospitals and
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this, these bunker busting guns, were used at the time. and after that strikes the lebanese ministry of house, that, that's uh, 6 people have died at least a 100 injured. but since then we've had another wave of strikes. i think another 4 or 5 across the southern suburb of the capital. and so it's, it's very hard to keep them. this is, this is an ongoing situation. these really ministry, they are, they announced that they were hitting a central come on send to in dia, but it's very hard to say that they haven't provided a proof of this. we're not able to get down that independently verify it. well, i can tell you is that i have been to down down to docket in the past, and i've been to similar stripe sites i've, i've attempted to people's found that it is a very tight, boring is neighborhoods and whatever the whole of injuries and deaths is right now it is going to climb significantly over the evening. and oliver,
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we are continuing to watch very closely the sky line a better route this evening. and there was, as you were speaking, another direct hit on da here. so we're seeing the scenes repeating, repeating themselves, and has, has the last said anything over the last few hours? no, it hasn't been any official statement on the strikes. in the southern suburb of dia, they bought one a statement very recently, just saying that the is there any change of pitching depos containing missiles and debt to sinking ships? they say that this is a fabrication, this isn't true, but it's been very hard to get anything, any real confirmation from his law. they often do stay quite tight lipped, at least for the 1st 24 hours of to a series of events like this. but as i say that this is relatively a precedent, it hasn't been as the strikes like this. i'm down here since 2006 since that more
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than i'm at the moment we are watching this play out in real time. let me know if you think if anyone was cooling this conflict earlier or contained, it's no longer that why it is feeling very, very much like a will people, hey, on the ground in very incredibly tens inquired incredibly worried and watching was happening very closely. yet, oliver, what are people in down here doing? we're watching, we're seeing the aftermath of yet another strike top right corner of our screen. and there's another one. and there is another one. so, for our viewers, if we're just joining us, it's just task to am. where you are, it's 2 am across the region in israel and 11 on and here's, and here's another one. we have multiple life feeds of the lebanese capital right now. multiple angles and we are seeing every few minutes at the moment, the new air strike on the southern suburb of the route. so there is a,
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there is an ongoing is really military operation that is targeting the lebanese capital, or at least it's 7 suburb oliver. i was asking you, what are people in dia doing well at the moment. they are playing the area for the assembly. and i spoke to one young man earlier over the phone and she, he lets details down not 1st stripe. and she had grabbed his paws for he dropped his papers and he was in a complete state to find it. it rushed out of the house and then he told me that he couldn't find his sister. he was looking for an assistant here, eventually found to she had been injured by some metal, but on the whole she was okay. and they were trying to find somewhere to leave. and at the same time i was witnessing more and more people arriving at hotels in downtown they were looking for somebody to stay mature for so much safe day are being turned away as well. the hotels are already full of many residents of the
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south of revenue and has been displaced by this is rainy campaign or farming across the country. and i've heard from people, i've heard reports. i apologize. i've heard reports that there are people sleeping in the cause alone, the coordination along the waterfront, away from the substance of a just to find an area or safety. so it's a very fluid situation in the very tense one. indeed, the oliver, it's no surprise if people would choose to sleep in their cars rather than in da here. give them what we're seeing on our screens and we're seeing fires burning and multiple locations in the suburb as a result of is really strikes on multiple targets. remember where we were a few hours ago in the story. israel said it had struck what it called a command and control center of has belong in the suburbs. and there was intense speculation that perhaps the hezbollah chief us on the straw that had been in that command and control center or in that location. there is no confirmation as to
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whether or not industrial there was there. there is no confirmation as to whether or not this rela, survived set attack. reuters, i had a source saying earlier that he was alive is really media. there was speculation that perhaps he had been killed. we simply do not have the answer to that question at the moment, but those are the questions that are being asked even as we are seeing. the sky is over very light up in the following, another striking, another one. there is a very heavy and very intensive is really military operation going on right now. on the southern suburb of a room where hundreds of thousands of people live. we continue to watch this and we go to houses 0 is out of the hush and who isn't tire and 711 on now are the has had to take shelter with his team because there are 2. there were ongoing is really strikes that were getting way too close for comfort early. what can you tell us?
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what for now we got out of shelter. boston that all is ready as strikes once the town is. i'm going to change surrounding the city all star. of course, during the past hours, there were in case it strikes my sugar. so i've never seen something like this before. the whole sky was just liking and of course this is, this is just spots of what's happening again and they were to also just the continuation of what's happening in the. ready fabulous. a name power i'm getting the 5 g mirage run launch to watch is run the last one. i'm just a few minutes ago. but for now it's, it's clear that situation is getting was minutes off the minutes i'm, it's just getting off the impression that we are in the phones. more going on right
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now. we'll just use this in the beginning of this for section more problems in the past. few days, there was some kind of patience when we saw the big strikes that will fit the ratios with the pager of talk with the walkie talkie. i talked with the head a got to be the strike on the law. and today with this huge deal, i think there was another start here on the 2nd. it sounds like it's a bit more so. yeah, i mean it's, it's, it's cleared up. thank you. i haven't been working on a candle position. i'm pulling this chain of command, the law might have been 7, a commander done today said dr. todd. hit the command center by trying to hit the control layer, which is the communication by trying to catch on some of the structure, the ministry infrastructure. we want to change today with shovel strikes,
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something different than this has been going on, of course for several weeks on lunch, but not which empty supplies. and of course, the issue all between the in general, the front, the support in areas where they are. and of course, the whole country did a deal with several strikes in different areas. and then some of them i've been reporting here in the file showing them up here and before leaving and you know, the most, i get to know somebody, i guess what i'm the show, which is a non 7 on an area that has nothing to do. if we want to, the thing is really the finishing out for areas next. how do you do that on the aspect to love? what is on a document that i mainly doors who i mean kids off accidentally is the number of
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civilians are the kids over the past days is not she's not on 750 in just 3 days. i know, god knows how many were killed and that i couldn't do that or you can play, smell, or may lose them inside them and all the cities. yeah, i'll the actually, i'm very glad that you brought that up. so there's repeating around 700 people have been killed in 11 on the, in the last little under a week since the israel as sharply escalated its attacks on the country. and there is no way of knowing how many people have died in the past few hours. as we see direct hit upon direct hit on down here, and ali, who still with us on the line is reporting that there are also hits in the southern part of living on how many people have been killed in those attacks. we don't know, certainly in the case of da here, we continue to say it is a densely populated suburbs,
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700000 people lived there. so some we know from our teams on the ground have been sleeping and we are seeing massive fires burning. now, after multiple strikes, i have counted in the last hour, possibly a dozen strikes and who knows what the human cost of that is. alley has in the last 2 hours or so. since this has ramped up even further, has has been lost said anything, has there been a statement, any communication from them at all as well the statement just from the law that we just saw a quite, maybe a 3730 minutes ago. we got stated clearly, let me just see from this statement that they denied the phone screen made by visual about presence of weapons had been and this is the building struck my ears run and they were southern to lie to. this is the fraud which
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states i can disregard my has the law aside from the statements that the whole new job was issuing whenever the, whenever the off, the docking or the launching attacks toward sewage circuits to watch. so, as you know, of course, today we know from the law that they launched age attacks. they to the one on the uh, the one they called this document of side on the, on the city of softball. and also significantly on the military base on the board, there were very which ones like a signal from to below that they all spend present on the board. the school stuff has a lot of stuff also significant. she, i given the fact that this war is not just sorry about 3rd strikes it's, it's all about what speed is she painted off and if possible,
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she really ground the information that money on is speculating about how it is it going to be and how, why would it be and what it is when we be able to get into the new secretaries and from when was that age of going to it's going to be from south 11 on my beach to receive antenna twenties and then getting to try to split on divide the, the math anyway, just similar to of helping me maybe might be the, the respect or so these are the big questions now and people are just waiting to see what trimball i'd like to say because i like the party like though that fish type thing for me, i don't know, i'm just listening to arrange for me is really i just want to unlock do the big things out in being said. and of course we've been over the past. yeah. do we know
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that the secretary general has already be be these directions on those, those people chose his supporters. i'm actually able to people off the phone ring. this was what's gonna happen. so someone is ready to do soon as our we also 0 is of the house and thank you very much for that. i'll the sincerely thank you for your reporting to you and your team moments ago you were still sheltering. following a number of is really or strikes near where you are not far from tire in southern lebanon, where you and your team are as bringing david there. osh professor at the national defense university and a former pentagon director of a reagan peninsula affairs. and david, you're joining us now from washington dc. what's your main take away from your last few hours and everything that we're seeing as well as the determination of israel. ready to destroy it has follows ability to conduct fires into
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israel. so when uh, you know, when we lose sight of this for nothing, you know, who is responsible to is electric and you know, as well i had uh, basically said they were going to make northern israel uninhabitable. i don't think any is really a leader can do that. what's really profound about this is how compromised as well as internal security watch. so you saw a number of attacks which were preceded by an amazing commander right into syria that destroyed the uranium. and as paul on missile fabrication in storage facility followed up by this flow after blow after blow. so it, it remains to be seen as it has the law has the ability reconstituted. so if the 11 a state which in 11 his army is not involved in these factions here. if, if it does not choose to try to re establish sovereignty overall of love or not. but at least in the short term, hezbollah has been set back. many,
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many years in its ability to forget power, outside of southern loving on the because balance. yeah, i was gonna ask you about that. whether it is possible to assess at this very early stage, still the, the damage that has been done to as belong. there is no doubt that that yes, of course, this is damaging to them, but at the same time, they spent 2 decades according to most and list. and i think you won't disagree with me on this. they spent the best part of 2 decades arming, preparing for a moment like this. so one assumes that it has belong as one of the most powerful armed groups in the world is ready and able to sustain something like this as well. yeah, but the, the level of the compromise really is breathtaking. i mean, almost all of the senior leadership has been killed. when i look at this given as low as internal security practices, you know, normally folks would interrogate each other. but clearly they were compromised at
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a level that was above interrogation by his fuller counter intelligence. that would lead me to conclude, it would either be somebody at the top by and i think that's extremely unlikely for what is more likely that perhaps some runs revolutionary guardian and lock it yours has been, has full with has full of that there was a compromise there that seems to be a little bit more likely, but even so, you've got a lot of problems here. first off, much of the missile inventory and the ability to produce it has been destroyed. and i disagree with one of the early reports saying that hezbollah has shown restraint in the last few days. i, i think you could easily draw the opposite conclusion, which is that they're ballistic missile capacity has been so degraded that they're unable to launch an effective strike. with salvos of missiles against tele be for the interior of israel. and then the other problem is when they recruit um, you know, they're going to see people who have a level of mistrust in their own organization. and that, that will have
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a profound morales factor on recruits potential recruiting members of the organization. so even if it reconstituted itself, it will be much more poorly, are much less coordinated and it's morale and funding spirit will be significantly degraded, probably for a generation. so what you're telling us, you're right, by the way, that multiple guess i've told me for the moment has the law has not carried out the level of attacks on israel could have done right. it hasn't. except in one instance of one big miss. uh that was aimed at tel aviv and that was safely destroyed by israel. um, except for that one instance a couple of days ago as the last so far has not appeared to have aimed at massive is really population centers namely tend to leave. and you're saying it's not because they don't want to is because they can't, as well as an equally valid conclusion,
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given the scale of destruction. and you know, we forget this to not start with a page has it started with the destruction of the missile fabrication storage facility and syria? it's an equally valid conclusion that they no longer lack. the ability to do this. if they had fired, say 20 missiles at the same target, they probably would have overwhelmed any missile defense system. and i don't see the point when you're seeing the methodical elimination of an end of the entire high commander as full. i don't see the point in just firing one missile, you know, as a statement that it seems at the moment for that has passed. so we don't know, we won't know for some time, but those conclusions are equally valid. and given the circumstance, i think the lack of ability deserves a. i've agreed to you free of credit, david worse or seeing the largest uh, at least from our vantage point. it's very impressive. what we're seeing on our
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screen. it is remarkable and to be completely honest, makes me somewhat uncomfortable to be watching this live. we are seeing fire raining down on parts of the da here, the southern suburb of the 11 east capital bay route. again, we have said many times here. beg your pardon, we have said many times since the beginning of this program that there are hundreds of thousands of people who live here. yes is real, says that it is naming for miss i as it is aiming for a they said earlier, a command and control center. we don't know because we don't have the evidence. they don't tend to offer the evidence for, you know, the why they say they aim for a certain place. but the reality is that there are many people, many ordinary lebanese people who live in the, in the suburb of the capital. you know, as i listen to you, you mentioned the providence of um, as well as weapons, many of which come from iran on the flip side, many of israel's weapons come from the us. so i'm wondering,
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as i see these hits on the roots, the us has come in for an enormous amount of criticism for continuing to supply israel with weapons that have been used to kill palestinians. as i watch these live pictures, i wonder, isn't the us again, going to come in for criticism. if lebanese people die under american made bonds? yeah. and that's the burden of being a superpower. and, you know, i've been honored to be on this network over a period of years and in overtime. so i've had the same argument apply to a weapons being used by the year of states in i've ever been where it's and, and the saudi arabia in yemen. so this is a problem. the other paradox here and, and i haven't heard it on this or can i can i do understand because you said you said something else that i'm not sure. a square is with the americas public statements. you said is the burden of being a superpower. the yes, the, the super power could act in a different way, right? because the su power is saying they want to cease fire is saying they don't want
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imagery. escalation is saying, they want to see why they have presented a plan, which their ally, israel has completely smelled, apparently hasn't even bother to answer to. the us could actually pull his weapons, but what it has done instead is in the last 24 hours. um, commit itself to another package of military aid worth $8500000000.00 to israel young. good questions. so i'm glad you raised that. and again i've, i've been discussing this on this network over a period of years with regard to other countries. most notably the, the g c. c states that were engaged in yemen. so when a security partner goes against the current american policy, there is the possibility of doing that. but there seems to be a misconception. i don't, i don't think you should. i don't think your rental is steve, but there's a popular misconception that somewhere in washington there's switch, you know, if that switches with the airplanes fall from the sky, the fact of the matter remains. israel has a robust domestic arms in the street,
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and their stock calls that have been built up over the years. so if the united states adopts the ultimate and course and just stops all things, it would take years to have an effect on his early operations. and what is this thing you're solely model? so go ahead, said we're going to either stop delivering bombs, ammunition, or at least slow it down. don't you think by now we would have seen an effect a to i, you know, i understand what you're saying, that there's a latency between the moment the us decides to would decide in this hypothetical scenario, the same, right? fewer weapons. and the moment you actually see the impact on the battlefield, but that moment does exist as well. there is a moment and we can argue over how long it would take. but there's one thing to bear in mind, which is israel, how's the domestic arms industry as to many countries that have been embargoed in the past. and the weapons of the united states provides generally are extremely accurate and extremely modern. so for example,
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if israel determines that. ready it's a matter of their national survival to eliminate what they think rightly or wrongly is that has bullet command control bunker here. and there, denied us weapons to attack. you know, one block precisely. they will use domestically produce weapons and wind up getting the rates, the destruction of the entire city as you saw in 2006. so there are, there are some paradoxes here, but i think we are in agreement that the ability to affect something in the short order. and this campaign has lasted less than a week, is not quite. if people have an exaggerated view of what the united states can do, and it's also important to note that, you know, the united states is not fight, or israel rather is not fighting the lebanese army or the lebanese forces they are . they at least claim to be and their intent seems to be focused on has paula, which the united states has no very lovely affection of course. so the argument seems to be over proportionality and the conduct of israeli operations,
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not the rightness or wrongness of operations. so there are a couple of issues with the humidity. oh, why is that address? you know, i think the argument is about is going to be going forward about who wines up dead where we're was just saying before you came on about 700008 1000000? pardon? 700 people had been killed in the last days or so. it is really strikes and inevitably, already 4 days ago we're saying 50 children have been killed. so you understand where the argument goes. um, so i understand that and there is no mode of appeal. and obviously around the world, particularly in a global south, you know, israel has become a, a separate, a great strategic defeat over the level of civilian casualties. but in united states suffers as well. but the israel's narrative, which has been the david control center. how can i this is this is not against you but you know what so many of our.
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