Global News Podcast
BBC investigates deadliest single Israeli attack in recent conflict with Hezbollah
Fri, 24 Jan 2025
A BBC investigation into an Israeli attack in Lebanon finds evidence that almost all those killed were civilians. Also: a court in Pakistan orders a popular social media personality to publish videos on animal rights.
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Valerie Sanderson and at 1400 hours GMT on Friday the 24th of January, these are our main stories. A BBC investigation into the deadliest single Israeli attack in its recent conflict with Hezbollah finds evidence that almost all the 73 people killed were Lebanese civilians.
The exiled Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya says the country's presidential election due this weekend is a sham. A court in Pakistan orders a popular social media personality to publish a video every month on animal rights.
Also in this podcast, the actor Hugh Grant says settlements made to victims like Prince Harry in the phone hacking scandal involving Rupert Murdoch's newspapers don't end there.
In light of these findings, we think that the police should launch a new criminal investigation into this. The people who were giving the orders are still there and they're still effectively running this country.
We start in Lebanon, where a ceasefire has been underway for two months after more than a year of fighting between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia. In the weeks before the ceasefire, Israel had intensified its bombing campaign against Hezbollah targets.
The single deadliest attack in nearly two decades took place on 29 September, when an Israeli airstrike destroyed an apartment block in the quiet village of Ein El Delb, killing 73 people. Israel says the building was a terrorist command centre and they were targeting a senior Hezbollah leader.
But a BBC Eye investigation has found that most of the victims were in fact civilians, many of them children. Ashraf lost his mother and sister in the apartment block.
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