A hezbollah stronghold. The Israel Defense forces said it targeted locations including Weapons Production facilities and storage sites that, it said, were under civilian housing. Simonjones has the latest. Explosions, screaming. New strikes overnight on Southern Beirut. Israels military said it was targeting buildings storing hezbollah weapons underneath them. Hezbollah denied they were arms depots. Explosions. Earlier, a series of massive explosions. It is thought the target here was the hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. It is unclear whether he was in any of the buildings that were hit. Iran, which backs hezbollah, has called the attack a dangerous, game changing escalation. In the aftermath of the blasts, Bbc Correspondent Hugo bachega on the ground in Southern Beirut faced hostility from angry crowds. This is one of the roads leading to dahieh. We tried to get out of the car but we were stopped by a group of men. There is chaos, there is tension, we have seen crowds gathered by th
that s when it began with an air strike from an israeli drone against that command center that israel says it s being used by militants, this particular building was used as an observation center and refugees of militants they would come back to seek refuge. the palestinian ministry of health saying that five palestinians have been killed so far. and that some 27 have been injured including seven critically. israel says also in the last half our or go, they ve carried out further air strikes against gunman and terrorist infrastructure, it says, including weapons production facilities and also explosive device storage facilities. we re also learning in the last few minutes that a soldier has suffered injuries and taken to the hospital after apparently being injured by one of the idf s engrenades. this operation is open and one of the biggest one we ve seen.
united nations in new york, japanese and south korea officials and security council to update them on negotiations with north korea to relieve kim jong-un of his nuclear weapons program. he just returned from pyongyang. his third visit to that city. unclear what specific firm commitments kim has made on dismantling the nuclear program. secretary pompeo says he understands the u.s. demand and committed to surrender his program. they refuse to say a timeline but there is a lot of work to do. satellite images show continued north koreans work on some weapons production facilities. pompeo said the u.s. has secured a commitment for the return of american service members killed during the korean war. that s expected in the next of weeks, he says. here at the security council