
Hezbollah launches rockets into Israel
The Israeli military says at least forty rockets landed in the north of the country
Hezbollah has launched a barrage of rockets at northern Israel, calling it a preliminary response to the killing of a top Hamas official in Beirut. The Israeli military said there'd been at least forty launches, and that it had responded.
Also on the programme: A British surgeon describes desperate scenes in hospitals in Gaza. A nun providing aid to the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia. And a former police officer on duty at the US Capitol remembers the January 6th attacks in 2021.
(Picture: IDF says it struck southern Lebanon targets after rocket sirens sounded in northern Israel, Kiryat Shmona. Credit: Atef Safadi/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)
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