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this is the story of one attack on one building... ..the deadliest in lebanon in nearly two decades. it took the lives of 73 people and shattered those of countless others. ashraf ramadan received a haunting voice note from his younger sisterjulia,

just days before she returned to their family home. on the morning of the 29th of september, they were distributing food to people who'd fled the conflict between israel and hezbollah in the south of lebanon. on the morning of the 29th of september, they were distributing food to people who'd fled the conflict between israel and hezbollah in the south of lebanon. explosion ashraf and julia were staying in their family home with their parents, abdul hamid and janan, who for more than 20 years have

lived near the town of sidon in southern lebanon, in the small village of ain el delb. this peaceful village is now the site of the deadliest single attack in lebanon in almost two decades. we've spent weeks investigating what happened here — seeking answers from the israeli military and hezbollah, analysing health ministry data, videos, social media posts and speaking with survivors and witnesses. we've reconstructed the building and identified more than 100 people in the 17 apartments when the block was hit. behind each door, a different story of pain and loss. julia, ashraf and their parents were in apartment aa.

one floor below, in apartment 3a, hawra and ali fares were hosting family displaced by the war. batoul had just arrived to stay with her sister. she, like nearly a million others in lebanon, fled her home to escape fighting. three floors below them, in —ia, denise al—baba lived with her husband mehyeddin and their two children, nermine and ali.

that sunday, denise had invited her brother hisham over for a weekend lunch. an israeli air strike hit the terrace of a ground floor apartment.

then — another strike. we've slowed the footage down to understand what happened. first, we see two missiles fly through the cloud of smoke towards the building. a second later, another missile. and another. in total, four israeli missiles, less than four seconds apart.

after seven hours under the rubble, the civil defence managed to reach hisham.

an entire family killed in a moment. hisham lost his sister denise, her husband and their two children, 16—year—old ali and 23—year—old nermine.

batoul�*s daughter, four—year—old hawra, was killed by the strike alongside her cousins, hasan and husayn.

in total, eight members of the fares family were killed. she coos ain el delb is a quiet residential neighbourhood. everyone i've spoken to felt safe here. they even invited family members to seek refuge here after fighting escalated in the south. they've also told me that they've never witnessed any hezbollah military activity. so why was this building targeted?

everyone we've spoken to told us this was a residential building. did you feel safe in this building? but the idf told us the building was being used as a hezbollah terrorist command centre, and the strike was carried out in a precise manner, killing the commander of hezbollah�*s sidon compound and several other operatives. it did not provide further information or evidence to support this. so, we searched through gravesites, social media tributes and videos of funerals to see if those killed in the attack were hezbollah commanders or operatives. we uncovered evidence suggesting six of the men killed in the attack were connected with hezbollah�*s military wing. their memorials label them

"mujahid", or "fighter" — a broad designation that does not suggest seniority. senior figures are described as "qayid", or "commander", and we've not found anyone with this rank in the building. all six men we identified were labelled mujahid. we sent the idf their names and asked if they were the targets of the strike. it did not respond to this question. one of the men was batoul�*s husband, mohammed fares. we asked her about this and she said that mohammed, like many other men in southern lebanon, was a hezbollah reservist. but she added that he'd never been paid by hezbollah, given rank or taken part in any fighting. hezbollah is one of israel's main threats and is designated a terror organisation by many western governments and gulf arab states.

but alongside its well—armed military wing, hezbollah is also an influential political party, holding seats in the lebanese parliament. in parts of lebanon, hezbollah�*s woven into the socialfabric, providing a range of social services. and while the group has hundreds of thousands of political supporters, its military wing is made up of an estimated 20 to 50,000 fighters. after the attack, one saudi media outlet did suggest that one man, ahmed awarkeh, from apartment —2a, may have been the sidon commander and the target of the attack.

we were able to find photos of ahmed awarkeh in military uniform... ..but found no evidence that confirmed he was a commander. so, we contacted hezbollah to ask if awarkeh was the commander of the sidon compound, or if any of those killed were hezbollah operatives. they did not respond. eyewitnesses told us awarkeh was smoking shisha on the terrace where the first strike hit. he was killed instantly. but it was the following four missiles which caused the entire building to collapse, resulting in mass civilian casualties. to find out more about ahmed zaki, we went to meet his son mehdi and his mother fawziya.

the lebanese ministry of health told us 73 people were killed in the attack, the country's worst single incident in almost 20 years. we've been able to verify the identities of 68 of the 73 people killed that day. while six of those we identified were affiliated with hezbollah�*s military wing, we found no evidence that this was the case for more than 60 other people killed that day. 23 of them were children. the idf said it... but our investigation has shown

that the majority of those killed in the strike were civilians. israel says it launched strikes in response to thousands of hezbollah rocket attacks from lebanon, which have killed israeli civilians and displaced tens of thousands from their homes. they added...

but un experts have questioned the proportionality and necessity of israeli air strikes on residential buildings in densely populated areas. screaming we examined ten of the deadliest israeli strikes on buildings in lebanon. they killed more than 200 people. in each case, we asked the idf why the building had been targeted. it told us... the tenth strike on a home in northern lebanon, the idf said it hit a building where a hezbollah terrorist was hiding. at least 28 people were killed in that attack. this pattern of striking entire buildings, leading to high civilian casualties, has been a feature of israel's war with hezbollah.

but the attack in ain el delb remains the most deadly. hassan taher works in the local cemetery. he buried the dead from the attack.

since october 2023, lebanese authorities say more than 3,900 people have been killed. many of them civilians. over the same period, israel says more than 80 israeli soldiers and 49 civilians have been killed. for now, a fragile

ceasefire has held. no—one knows how long this relative peace will last. but for ashraf, there's little comfort. is this yours? you're a christina aguilera fan?

hello. saturday was a day where the clean—up could begin from that incredibly powerful storm eowyn that battered parts of the uk and the republic of ireland on friday. a much calmer end to the day saturday. we had a fine sunset across southern areas. it was quite cold across northern portions of the uk on saturday, cold enough for some snow in the showers across high ground. now, eowyn is continuing to disintegrate just to the west of norway, but this is our next weather system that's coming in off the atlantic.

and this is another named storm. it's been named by the spanish authorities as storm herminia, and it's going to be bringing wet and windy weather over the next few days, with rainfall totals building up, particularly across parts of wales, the midlands, and south—west england, where we could see some localised flooding concerns as we head into the early part of the new week. now, at the moment we've got a little trough pushing eastwards, bringing rain, a bit of sleet and hill snow, mostly above 200m elevation across northern england and scotland, could be a few centimetres actually in scotland and a risk of some icy surfaces wherever we see a frost. so, into sunday morning, actually most of us having a fairly decent start to the day. there will still be some showers and blustery conditions for conditions for northern scotland, and it won't be long before we see the rain and winds pick up across england, wales, and northern ireland. gusts through the irish sea coast reaching around 60 to 70 miles an hour. winds that strong could topple one or two trees, bringing some localised disruption, but it won't be on the same scale of disruption that eowyn brought on friday. that really was an

exceptional system. monday, the same area of low pressure is with us. we've still got further outbreaks of rain and the wind around coastal areas. it will be, i suppose, a fairly mild kind of day, but probably not feeling so, given the strength of those winds. by tuesday, a lot of the rain will start to work a little bit further northwards, affecting parts of scotland by this stage. but the worst of the weather should clear through from wales and south—west england. still a few showers left over, still breezy, but the worst of the wind, the worst of the rain should start to push away. temperatures ranging from around seven to ten degrees, so a few degrees above average for the time of year. now, looking later in the new week, it looks like the weather should tend to settle down as the week goes by and into the following weekend, it might be dry for most of us.

live from washington, this is bbc news. there's jubilation over the latest hostage and prisoner release, and a precarious moment for the gaza ceasefire deal as israel accuses hamas of breaching its terms. as the trump administration freezes us aid to most countries, we look at those most impacted like violence—torn haiti. and donald trump praises sir keir starmer, saying he plans to call the british prime minister within 2a hours in what would be the first conversation between the two leaders since the inauguration. hello, i'm carl nasman. a fragile truce aimed at ending the war in gaza is entering its second week, after four israeli hostages and around 200 palestinian prisoners were released tojubilation in israel and west bank. the release of four israeli soldiers — naama levy, liri albag,

daniella gilboa and karina ariev is the second exchange