Explosions continue in Beirut as Israel expands ground offensive across Lebanon

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Israel says it aims to drive Hezbollah away from the border so the thousands of Israelis displaced by months of almost daily cross-border fire can return to their homes.

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00:00Fresh explosions have rocked Beirut's southern suburbs into Sunday as Israel expands its

00:07bombardment into new areas of Lebanon.

00:10The blasts in the capital began around midnight after Israel's military urged residents to

00:15evacuate areas in Dahiya, a collection of suburbs on Beirut's southern edge.

00:21Israel's attack on the Badawi refugee camp in the north killed an official with Hamas's

00:25military wing along with his wife and two daughters.

00:29An IDF spokesperson said that since the start of the ground operation on 30 September, Israeli

00:35forces have killed 440 Hezbollah militants and destroyed more than 2,000 targets.

00:41And in a post on X, the military said it found and dismantled a 250-meter-long tunnel in

00:46southern Lebanon that it says Hezbollah had intended to use to enter Israeli territory.

00:52At least 1,400 Lebanese, including civilians, medics and Hezbollah fighters, have been killed

00:58and 1.2 million driven from their homes in less than two weeks.

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