assassination is fuelling concerns about all—out war in the region. 0rla guerin reports from the beqaa valleyning you may find some parts of her report stressing —— beqaa. israel keeps hitting hard. for now, it looks unstoppable. this is the beqaa valley this afternoon. there were at least 30 air strikes in an hour. danger in every direction. "0ur neighbours, the jamil family, are all gone", he says. as more air strikes went down, noor lies in intensive care. she is six years old and was injured on her own doorstep on monday. her family says she is intelligent and chatty, and loves meeting new people. but here, shortly before the attack, she was afraid and praying. her mother now prays by her bedside. and suddenly, as we filmed, the planes were back. well, within the last few seconds, we have had a strike. we heard the plane in the air, then we felt the impact. the windows here shook, they rattled, and it's an indication of how nowhere here is safe. even patients in hospitals can't feel completely safe. minutes later, new wounded. an ambulance has just arrived now, bringing casualties from th

so this warning is focused on the villagers in the beqaa valley. >> i urge the lebanese residents let's of the villages in the beqaa valley who are inside or near houses where rockets and weapons are stored to move away immediately cnn's ben wedeman joins us now from beirut, then these last 48 hours have been the most intense exchanges of fire between israel and hezbollah. >> almost a year. what does that tell you about where we're headed? >> well, to put it in perspective, pamela, they're the most intensive israeli airstrikes since the 2006 war, according to the israeli military, so far today, they've launched at least 800 strikes on targets in various parts of lebanon. now you had that israeli spokesman i just a moment ago saying they're about to launch strikes on the beqaa valley and eastern lebanon. they've already begun that. and we're hearing various places that are being hit now regarding the death toll, this was at a press conference with lebanese health minister fit us. i'll be out who said the death toll is 270 for he said that includes 21 children, 39 children. now, that numb

orla guerin, bbc news, in the beqaa valley. warned israel against starting an all—out war with hezbollah or run. he said it is unclear what the response might be. we are watchin: the response might be. we are watching this _ the response might be. we are watching this very _ the response might be. we are watching this very closely - the response might be. we are watching this very closely to i watching this very closely to see how... if and how hezbollah and all around may react as well as the militia groups in iraq and syria. we have to be prepared for some sort of response. have to make sure we are ready and we are, believe we have the force capability we needin we have the force capability we need in the region but it is not clear, too soon to know. for more let's bring in the director of the reinhart programme on counter intelligence and terrorism. great to have you back in the programme. we are getting reports first of all in the last few hours of israeli strikes within beirut�*s city limits. we believe that to be the firs

herfather says he is not in hezbollah, but now wishes he was. 0rla guerin, bbc news, in the beqaa valleys from beirut. this is the apartment building believed to be struck by an israeli attack the first believed to be within the city limits since the outbreak of the conflict in gaza last year. the popular front for the liberation of palestine, a secular left wing group aligned with hezbollah, says three of its members were killed in that strike. these are live pictures. you can see the scene and destruction of that apartment building. this is in the city centre, in the state limits, city limits of beirut, the first time we have seen a strike since the war broke out. let's get more now on the overall situation and we can bring in the senior yemen in visor with the european institute of peace. great to have you on the bbc. what you make of the strikes we see across lebanon but also now escalating and we are seeing strikes in yemen on who to make targets. strikes in yemen on who to make taraets. ., , ., targets. -- houthis target. unfortunately, _ targets. -- houthis target. unfortunately,

syrian refugees that are now being displaced again by the israeli aerial campaign in the northern beqaa valleyare now streaming into beirut and other places where there is no room for the civilian population. now, you say the situation is unsustainable. you describe a desperate situation there. what do you see as happening next, and what do you hope will happen next, briefly, if you will? well either we get a cease—fire, which would be the only sensible thing, and that is the only — negotiations would be the only way to make safe and lebanon safe. if not, we could have a collapse of lebanon and an implosion in this place, that would be very bad for the region and very bad for israel. palestinian authority president, mahmoud abbas, laid out his expectations for gaza and the west bank once the fighting ends. addressing the un general assembly, abbas said he expected a comprehensive and permanent ceasefire in gaza. translation: first of all, a comprehensive _ translation: first of all, a comprehensive and - translation: first of all, a | comprehensive and permanent cease—fire in gaza and an end t

israel is hitting notjust here in, in southern beirut, but all over the country in especially the beqaa valleytoday down in tyre, around around tyre district, where a friend down there tells me there isn't a single village in the whole area, and it's a big area down there and not a single village has remained unscathed. so hezbollah, hezbollah is signalling that even after all these assassinations and after the business of the exploding pagers and walkie talkies, which knocked out, i mean, put out of business at least 1,500, maybe 2,000 hezbollah fighters, um, they're still very much in business. but now you've got the boss gone, it's very hard to see that this will not have an effect. they've got communication problems, they can't get immediately in touch with one another and they have command problems. although it seems that although they've lost a big raft of military commanders, they do seem to have a sort of understudy programme where one falls and is immediately replaced by somebody else because there's been no let—up in their in their rocketing. and of course, israel has been redoubling

herfather says he is not in hezbollah, but now wishes he was. 0rla guerin, bbc news, in the beqaa valley—out war in the middle east has to be avoided. he was speaking to reporters as he departed dover air force base. let's take a listen — as usual with these things, you can hear air force one in the background. are you going to talk to prime minister— are you going to talk to prime minister netanyahu, anything to say to him? _ minister netanyahu, anything to say to him? , , ., ~ ., to him? yes, i will be talking to him. i to him? yes, i will be talking to him- i will— to him? yes, i will be talking to him. i will tell— to him? yes, i will be talking to him. i will tell you _ to him? yes, i will be talking to him. i will tell you what - to him? yes, i will be talking to him. i will tell you what i - to him? yes, i will be talking to him. i will tell you what i say... j him. i will tell you what i say... can all—out war in the middle be awarded? — can all—out war in the middle be awarded? it can all-out war in the middle be awarded? . . can all-out war in the middle be awarded? ., , ., , .

orla guerin, bbc news, in the beqaa valley.ring of blows to its command structure in lebanon over the past fortnight, culminating in the killing of its leader, hassan nasrallah, on friday. so how did the israel defense forces manage to track him down, and how have they been able to target so many of hezbollah's top commanders so quickly? our security correspondent frank gardner has been looking into it. targeting hassan nasrallah was a strategic decision by israel. in hiding foryears, he had long been in their sites, so how did they do it? israeli intelligence was widely assumed to be behind the lethal sabotage of all those thousands of hezbollah pagers and walkie—talkies. mossad, the israeli spy agency, is thought to have inserted explosives into the supply chain. that was almost a fortnight ago. what's transpired since then is that it goes deeper still. have a look at this pyramid. the israeli military says it has assassinated all of these senior hezbollah commanders. so, just how has this israeli campaign been able to penetr

middle east, where israel says it is carrying out "extensive" strikes in south lebanon and the beqaa valleylaunched a rocket targeting the mossad headquarters and the israeli army confirms it was the first time hezbollah has targeted tel aviv. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has delayed his departure for the un general assembly

middle east, where israel says it is carrying out "extensive" strikes in south lebanon and the beqaa valleyer intercepting a hezbollah missile in tel aviv earlier. hezbollah says it launched a rocket targeting the mossad headquarters and the israeli army confirms it was the first time hezbollah has targeted tel aviv. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, has delayed his departure for the un general assembly in new york. let's speak to yossi belin — the former israeli justice minister who initiated the oslo peace process and the informal geneva peace accord. he joins us live from tel aviv. welcome to bbc news. did you hear those sirens this morning given you are in tel aviv? yes, i did. given you are in tel aviv? yes, i did- and _ given you are in tel aviv? yes, i did. and what— given you are in tel aviv? yes, i did. and what do _ given you are in tel aviv? yes, i did. and what do you - given you are in tel aviv? yes, i did. and what do you make i given you are in tel aviv? yes, j i did. and what do you make of the ongoing — i did. and what do you make of the ongoing tensions _ i d

israel's military saying it is carrying out extensive strikes in the south of lebanon, and the beqaa valleygnificant, this strike, or attempted strike on tel aviv because it is more than 200 kilometres south of the lebanese border, the israeli prime minister netanyahu has delayed his depar hurt for the un general assembly in new york, —— departure, our middle east correspondent yolande knell says it is significant.— yolande knell says it is siunificant. . ., significant. had people running to bomb shelters _ significant. had people running to bomb shelters this _ significant. had people running to bomb shelters this morning - significant. had people running to bomb shelters this morning as - significant. had people running to i bomb shelters this morning as these air—raid sirens went off. we are told now more than a million people in israel are living under military restrictions because of the ongoing operation against hezbollah, of course, even prior to this something like 60,000 people had been displaced from their homes close to the border. israel says it's a war goal to return them to t

the idf say extensive strikes in southern lebanon and the beqaa valley. 23 people have been killed in it intercepted a ballistic missile fired by hezbollah towards tel aviv. significantly, this is the first such rocket to target israel's biggest city. stay with us on bbc news, we have all the business news coming up and the sport. hello. we saw intense rainfall and flooding for many on monday. tuesday brought a slightly drier day for some of us. but now wednesday, we are seeing the arrival of more rain. it's going to last on and off for many of us over the next few days. the winds are going to be strengthening too. so a fairly unsettled spell of weather, certainly until friday. let's take a look at the rainfall that we're expecting to accumulate over the next few days. some places, particularly northeast england, but also central and southern england and into wales, could see up to about 80mm of rain and some of that is falling on very saturated ground. so i think we're going to see some further problems with localised flooding later in the week. so low pressure is driving our weather

later today a similar message which then said a similar campaign would be carried out in the beqaa valleyor their own safety. but there was no way specified where they should go and there are places opening up in other areas of lebanon to house people who are fleeing those areas. by, lebanon to house people who are fleeing those areas.— fleeing those areas. a question from ryan _ fleeing those areas. a question from ryan and _ fleeing those areas. a question from ryan and he _ fleeing those areas. a question from ryan and he says, - fleeing those areas. a question from ryan and he says, how. fleeing those areas. a question | from ryan and he says, how can israel do such extensive bombing of a neighbouring country without declaring war? it's the history of the region. it's the history of the region. i was — it's the history of the region. i was based in the middle east and jerusalem in 1996 when there — and jerusalem in 1996 when there was a similar kind of escalation and a similar kind of concerns about pushing hezbollah from the border and stopping the rocket fire. then in 2006 _ stoppin

southern suburbs, but they simply more concentrated in the south as well as in the eastern around the beqaa valley where there have been some one strike that according to the ministry of health killed a 21 people and injured 47. >> there was another strike outside of the southern city of sidon in which killed 32 wounded, 53 in total, it appears that the death toll for today's strikes exceeds 70 what we're not seeing however, is any sort of significant hezbollah response. certainly in the aftermath of friday's killing of secretary general hassan and i said, i'm so far we've seen that hezbollah has launched, has claimed responsibility for 11 strikes over the border, but nothing particularly out of the ordinary. now, is that because they are holding their fire for some sort of surprise, salvo or is it because it's there's all of the decimation than well over actually, decimation of its military and political leadership today, his butler acknowledged i just two of their senior commanders were killed. one is ali karki, who's responsible for the southern front. in other words, the border with israel. th

to the east in the beqaa valley, residential buildings turned to rubble. and in southern lebanon.ikes continue. israel says its targets are hidden hezbollah weapons, but this week's victims include children like misaab al-malla, and his mother aziza ali obeid. >> my children and i were at home, working and relying on god for support, when the israeli enemy hit us. they are just children. nick: the strikes have caused tens of thousands to flee their homes, to cities that can't cope. >> no doubt that the circumstances we are facing today are extraordinary with the aggression we are witnessing. nick: but hezbollah continues its own aggression including on this , israeli highway. hezbollah has fired thousands of rockets today -- rockets. today they hit this supermarket in the arab-israeli city of tamra. >> luckily, there were no physical injuries, but there have been victims of trauma in the city. nick: hezbollah is part of lebanon's government and offers social services, but today israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said hezbollah and its leader, must be removed. >> nasrallah i

strikes throughout lebanon are concerned, what we've seen is strikes in the south strikes in the beqaa valley. the death toll at this point is hovering around 80, but as usual, that's a preliminary number because in many cases, buildings are utterly demolished and rescue workers really have to dig through them to find if anybody is alive. but definitely to find the dead. now, in addition to this, lebanese security source tells cnn that the body of hassan nasrallah has been uncovered, apparently, his corpse was in one piece despite the obvious violence of those multiple blasts that killed him there's no clear idea at this point if or where or when there's going to be a funeral for him i've attended several hezbollah funerals over the last two weeks, but in this case, given that the place where hezbollah has its strongest presence is southern suburbs of beirut mature right behind me. it might not be advisable to hold any sort of large gathering considered considering the frequency of israeli strikes. and finally, the french foreign minister has arrived here in beirut. obviously the french and t

but what we've seen in the beqaa valley in southern lebanon if they've been very intense, in fact, just to update you the ministry of health is just giving new numbers of the number of fatalities there now approaching in 84 this day alone on, at the moment, i'm hearing in israeli drone overhead, which has become pretty constant over the lebanese capital. and of course they've clearly keeping a very close eye on the southern suburbs. now today, his baloch came out announced that two more of their senior commanders have been killed. one, ali karki, who was responsible for the southern front in other words, border with israel and nobilo koch, who is the head of preventative security and also a member of his butler's leadership council and also, we heard from a lebanese security source, jim that the body of nasrallah has been found at that site where six buildings oh we're, flattened however, we still don't know when or where or if a public funeral for him will be held. >> jim beirut. and now to the other front of this expanding war is that one inside yemen? and i'm joined now by cnn's nic

the military put out a notice warning the residents of south lebanon southern beirut, and the beqaa valley to leave anywhere where were they think his bella weapons and other material? our being stored we're talking about if you look at the population to prevail for population of those three areas, we're talking about 2 million people now. i spoke to a friend who actually went to the southern suburbs. he told me this the areas largely empty except for some young men. and we know that hundreds of thousands of people have left southern lebanon. that bekaa valley. also people have left, but there's still many people left behind. so this warning from the israeli military, two people in this area would indicate there are more strikes on the way, and there does seem to be a preference among the israeli military to strike at night. now, in addition, listen to this one right now, i'm going to hear an israeli drone over the southern suburbs as far as this situation goes for civilians it's many of them are who left this part of beirut have, are camped out in parks, on sidewalks. some of them have fo

: israel expanding its targets today, warning residents to leave any homes with weapons in the beqaa valleye hezbollah was founded decades ago near the border with syria. >> we advise civilians from lebanese villages located in and next to buildings in areas used by hezbollah for military purpose, such as those used to store weapons, to immediately move out of harm's way for their own safety. nick: israel said its targets were hezbollah, but lebanese officials say israel also struck hospitals, medical centers, and other civilian infrastructure. it is a dangerous, violent escalation, one day after hezbollah leaders promised their own escalation. >> we don't need to make threats, and we won't specify how we will respond to aggression. we've entered a new phase, titled "open-ended battle of reckoning." nick: but over the last week, it's been hezbollah that's faced unprecedented attacks. their walkie-talkies and pagers turned into bombs, injuring thousands and killing nearly 40. and on friday, an israeli airstrike in southern beirut killed the founder of hezbollah's special forces unit, but als

in lebanon to evacuate in lebanon's bekaa valley is warning is focused on the villagers in the beqaa valley residents were given just two hours notice before israeli jets began hitting targets including homes or the israeli military says hezbollah is storing rockets and weapons as smoke engulfed swaths of lebanon, many now fear this is just the beginning. as the prospect of all out war now looms larger than ever. >> jeremy diamond joins us now from haifa. so what more is the idf saying about the strikes well, anderson, the israeli military says that they hit a rocket launch facilities as well as weapons depots holding rockets, drones, long-range cruise missiles. >> and you can see in many of the videos of these strikes but there were indeed many secondary explosions indicating that the israeli military was hitting some of its targets. at least they are also claiming tonight that those secondary explosions caused some of the junta hundreds of casualties that we have seen across lebanon tonight. now, we have no way of knowing how many of the casualties could potentially be tied to those secon

is warning is focused on the villagers in the beqaa valley. >> residents were given just two hours notice before israeli jets began hitting targets, including homes or the israeli military says hezbollah is storing rockets and weapons as smoke gulfs, swaths of lebanon. many now fear this is just the beginning as the prospect of all out war now looms larger than ever. >> and jake, if you needed any more indication that this is a country on a war footing tonight, the israeli cabinet approving a quote, special situation nationwide giving itself the power to impose additional restrictions on civilian life. >> meanwhile, tonight here in haifa, this city, the third largest in israel, saw the first missiles since the beginning of this conflict, aimed squarely right here as hezbollah shows that it is not only capable, but also willing to strike deeper into israel. then before jake, all right. >> jeremy diamond, thanks so much. former israeli prime minister naftali bennett joins us now, i thanks for joining us. so hezbollah has significantly more military capacity than hamas does. can the israelis

they continue this morning, hitting the south and the beqaa valley in the east and killing at least 15 according to the lebanese health ministry. the attacks are leaving a trail of devastation. israel has accused hezbollah of hiding weapons and rockets in residential areas, but people here disagree. issam's warehouse was destroyed in an attack injiyeh in the south. this was an auto repair shop, he says, and the equipment was all for civilian use. he saw in the media that the israelis might have suspected that he had weapons there. in beirut, displaced families continue to arrive, fleeing the south. schools have been turned into shelters, and many don't know when or if they'll be able to go home again. translation: god willing, everything calms down. - i hope there's a solution. i really hope there's a solution. the uk is again urging citizens to leave lebanon immediately. for now, there's no panic and many are staying in part of the. society here for over ten years. so we hope that sanity can prevailand, um, peace can prevail at at some point. and de—escalation. and that's it simply re

learning hearing from the state news agency it at least three people were killed in a town in the beqaa valley to the east of here. >> and also security sources are telling cnn that these walkie talkies, essentially, even though there have been described in the arabic media as wireless devices, 15 to 20 explosions occurred in the southern suburb fruits of beirut. and that of course is an area where hezbollah has a large presence. in addition to 15 to 20 explosions in very arid various areas of southern lebanon. now, the security sources say that the extent of the explosions today are much less obviously then what? but we saw yesterday when according to the ministry of health here, as many as 10,800 people were killed, as many as almost a dozen i mean were wounded in addition to at least are almost a dozen people killed in yesterday's blast. so we're outside the american university beirut medical center, which yesterday treated as many as 200 people who were injured in those pager of blasts. we have yet to see the injuries arriving at this hospital, which is really a lebanon's premiere medical

agency, the official news agency you can see reporting that three people have been killed in the beqaa valley to the eastern here the lebanese ministry of health is saying that a initial toll of the injured so far as a result of this afternoon's series of blasts, at least 100 with according to their numbers one dead and that's after yesterday when at least 2,800 people were injured in those pager blast and we had an opportunity to speak with us, yet who's the minister of health, who told us how the authorities to medical authorities are coping with this mass casualty event? >> how is the, hospital dealing with this huge number of patients? >> so the problem is we received around 200 patients and we receive them in a very short time about within an hour or two, almost all of them went inside our doors, so the stretched us a pretty much too thin. but our capacity between doctors, nurses logistics, managed to keep up with the needs and to stabilize the life threatening injuries and then to provide the immediate care. and then of course, transfer them to the hospital to the operating rooms to und

. >> though there's warning is focused on villages in the beqaa valley. >> residents were given just two hours notice before israeli jets began hitting targets, including homes or the israeli military says hezbollah is storing rockets and weapons as smoking gulfs, swaths of lebanon, many now fear this is just the beginning as the prospect of all out war now looms larger than ever. >> and wolf this evening, the israeli cabinet approving a quote, special situation across israel, this empowering the government to put in place emergency measures to limit civilian activities should it deem that necessary clear evidence that this country is on a war-footing. >> the israeli government men's clearly aiming to try and escalate the situation in lebanon in order to try and get his bullet to back down. but for now, hezbollah is simply showing that it is willing and capable of striking deeper into israel. then before well, our jeremy diamond reporting from haifa, israel, the north, stay safe over there, jeremy. >> thank you very much. joining us now cnn, political and global affairs analyst barak

beirut to have basically left their homes this southern suburbs, or in the south of lebanon, or the beqaa valley lebanese officials have, as we've been reporting, saying, as much as 1 million people have fled their homes. keep in mind that's just less than 20% of the population. now as far as his the battle is launching attacks on israel. they've claimed 11 so far today. but most of them seem to be the usual targets of mostly along on the border with israel. nothing that would approximate something that you could describe as hezbollah would describe as a response a revenge strike for the killing of nasrallah or any other of the senior leadership who have been killed in the last two weeks. so we don't know of his bullets waiting for some sort of surprise, massive attack, or simply because of the blows they sustained over the last two weeks they're even capable of launching such a revenge attack. jim yeah, it's not table. >> they could deliver the orders to given how israel seems to have dismantled the leadership, but also the communication networks our jeremy diamond, in northern israel and jerem

there has been mass displacement over the last five days in from south lebanon and the eastern beqaa valleys range from 200,000 up to half a million who are displaced. they're living in schools. they're living in relatives homes . some people are relatives homes. some people are sleeping on the streets or on beachesin sleeping on the streets or on beaches in the south, because they have nowhere safe to go. there's no shelters in lebanon. there's no shelters in lebanon. there's none of the infrastructure that's available for example, in israel, or even a bit more in ukraine to protect people from airstrikes. so it's a very, tense time for people. but we do have some signs that there's a diplomatic opening for a negotiation. we're hearing that on the sidelines of the un general assembly in new york, that there are attempts to hammer out some sort of temporary ceasefire between hezbollah and israeli forces , we hezbollah and israeli forces, we understand that the us is leading these negotiations, and they've said that this window will give some time to go back and work on the hostage deal and