The EU's Foreign Policy chief Josep Borrell’s visit to Lebanon comes at the end of a Middle East tour related to the ongoing wars in Gaza and Lebanon. Before his visit to Beirut, Borrell visited Cyprus and Jordan.
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00:00The EU is ready to allocate 200 million euros to assist the Lebanese military deploy additional
00:08troops to the country's south, according to EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell.
00:14The bloc's top diplomat called for more pressure on both Israel and Hezbollah to reach a ceasefire,
00:20saying one was pending with the final agreement from Israel.
00:24Borrell met the Lebanese parliament speaker, a Hezbollah ally mediating between groups,
00:28in his last foreign mission as EU High Representative.
00:33Meanwhile Hezbollah fired around 160 rockets and other projectiles into Israel, wounding
00:39at least five people.
00:43Around 60,000 Israelis have been displaced from the country's north by the fighting.
00:49Earlier an Israeli airstrike on central Beirut killed at least 20 people and injured a further
00:5466, in the fourth such attack on the capital in less than a week.
01:00The strikes destroyed an eight-story building with a Hezbollah representative saying none
01:04of the group's officials were inside at the time.