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00:00A first attack then right in the centre or really near to the centre of Beirut.
00:06That's right. I think what you're seeing from ever since this uptick, this huge escalation that
00:12we've seen over the past two weeks, what you're seeing from the State of Israel in its actions
00:17is wherever the targets are, we will go for them. So initially it was in the south of Lebanon,
00:23then it was in the area of Beirut controlled by Hamas, south Beirut, the Dahiya there,
00:29and now it seems wherever there are targets, Israel gives itself the freedom to strike. So
00:35we saw the strike against three Palestinian militants in Beirut, very close to the centre
00:41of Beirut. We've seen an acknowledgement from Hamas that its leader in the south of the country,
00:47so Hamas is another militant group that has militias there, militants there that its leader
00:54there, Fatah Sharif Abu Al-Amin, has been killed. Some Israeli media is reporting reopening an old
01:04wound that he was also, that same Hamas leader, was also the leader of the teacher's union for
01:12UNRWA, the UN Refugee Agency. You'll remember all through this war with Hamas, there've been
01:17allegations by Israel against the UN group that there were Hamas operatives within it,
01:23and that allegation reopened this morning after that announcement by Hamas that that
01:29leader had been killed.