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NAME: LEB ROCKETS 20060723I TAPE: EF06/0657 IN_TIME: 10:58:12:16 DURATION: 00:01:06:20 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Nr Tyre - 23 July 2006 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: 1. Various shots of rockets being launched towards Israel 2. Various shots of smoke plumes from Israeli counter strikes nearby STORYLINE: Several rockets were fired at Israel on Sunday from a site near the Lebanese city of Tyre. Minutes later, smoke plumes believed to be from Israeli counter strikes were seen rising from a location close by. Rockets fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon into northern Israel since war broke out 12 days ago have left 17 civilians dead. Nineteen Israeli soldiers have been killed in the fighting. The civilian death toll as a result of Israel's counter offensive against Lebanon has risen to 375 people. Israel's declared war against Hezbollah began on 12 July after Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas captured two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others in a raid on Israel's northern border.

CLEAN: Exterior shots of an Israeli tank firing shells across the Lebanese border in the 2006 conflict between Israel and Hizbollah on July 22, 2006 in Beirut, Lebanon.

--SUPERS--\n:30 - :35\nFile 2015 \n\n:47 - 1:05\nAl-Manar TV\nSayyed Hassan Nasrallah\nHezbollah Secretary General \n\n1:07 - 1:15 \nFile 2006 \n\n1:27 - 1:46\nBen Wedeman\nCNN Senior International Correspondent\n\n3:13 - 3:22\nAndrea Tenenti\nUNIFIL Spokesperson\n\n --LEAD IN--\nTENSIONS ARE RISING ON THE BORDER BETWEEN ISRAEL AND LEBANON -- AFTER ISRAELI FORCES UNCOVERED TUNNELS THEY SAY WERE DUG BY HEZBOLLAH. \n . . .A MILITANT GROUP GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES ACCORDING TO ISRAEL'S PRIME MINISTER .\nHERE'S CNN'S BEN WEDEMAN REPORTING FROM THE LEBANESE SIDE OF THE BORDER.\n --REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS--\nTHE LINE THAT SEPARATES LEBANON FROM ISRAEL IS TENSE IN THE BEST OF TIMES…\nEVER MORE SO NOW ISRAEL IS SEARCHING FOR TUNNELS IT CLAIMS HEZBOLLAH HAS DUG INTO ISRAELI TERRITORY.\nA SOLDIER KEEPS A CLOSE EYE THROUGH HIS SCOPE ON THE CNN CREW ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FENCE, KNOWN AS THE BLUE LINE.\nSINCE THE ISRAELI OPERATION, DUBBED NORTHERN SHIELD, BEGAN MORE THAN TWO WEEKS AGO, THEY'VE UNCOVERED AT LEAST FOUR TUNNELS…\nHEZBOLLAH, CLOSELY ALIGNED WITH IRAN, HAS NO COMMENT.\nWEDNESDAY ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU DECLARED THE TUNNELS AMOUNT TO AN ACT OF WAR…\nTHE RHETORIC ON BOTH SIDES TAKING ON A MENACING TONE.\nLAST MONTH HEZBOLLAH LEADER HASSAN NASRALLAH WARNED HIS FIGHTERS WOULD RESPOND IF ISRAEL STRIKES.\nANY AGGRESSION TOWARD LEBANON, HE SAID, ANY AIR RAID ON LEBANON, ANY SHELLING OF LEBANON, WILL DEFINITELY, DEFNITELY, DEFINITELY BE ANSWERED.\nLEBANON AND ISRAEL HAVE BEEN OFFICIALLY IN A STATE OF WAR SINCE 1948…IN THE SUMMER OF 2006 ISRAEL AND HEZBOLLAH FOUGHT FOR MORE THAN A MONTH BUT SINCE THEN QUIET HAS PREVAILED.\nTHE POSSIBILITY OF SMALL INCIDENTS SPARKING A BROADER CONFLICT LOOMS LARGE.\n\nBen Wedeman, CNN Senior International Correspondent: "We are right on the border between Lebanon and Israel. And just to give you an idea how close everyone is to one another, this is a Lebanese army position, over there under the camoflauge are Israeli troops, and right there are UN peacekeepers."\n\nHEZBOLLAH'S FORCES ARE NOWHERE TO BE SEEN…MANY OF THEM SIMPLY LOCAL INHABITANTS WHO JOINED THE GROUP.\nON THIS HILL TOP WE MET TWO YOUNG MEN WHO SAID THEY HAD COME TO ENJOY THE VIEW.\nTHIS MAN, WHO IDENTIFIED HIMSELF SIMPLY AS ABU WAHAB, TOLD ME GOD GIVE STRENGTH TO THE ARMY AND THE RESISTANCE. WE'RE WITH THEM.\nTHE UN INTERIM FORCE IN LEBANON, OR UNIFIL, IS TASKED WITH IMPLEMENTING UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION 1701, WHICH BROUGHT AN END TO THE 2006 HOSILITIES…BUT ALSO STIPULATED THAT ARMED GROUPS, MEANING HEZBOLLAH, SHOULD DISARM…\nBUT IN LEBANON'S COMPLICATED POLITICAL LANDSCAPE, HEZBOLLAH HAS MANAGED TO KEEP AND BUILD UP ITS ARSENAL, AND SEND ITS FIGHTERS TO BOLSTER THE SYRIAN ARMY IN ITS WAR AGAINST THE REBELS…\nISRAEL, WARY HEZBOLLAH IS GROWING EVER STRONGER, ALMOST DAILY SENDS ITS WARPLANES INTO LEBANESE AIRSPACE\nTHE LEBANESE GOVERNMENT HAS RESPONDED SAYING THE LEBANESE ARMY HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED TO TAKE ALL NECESSARY MEASURES TO IMPLEMENT RESOLUTION 1701 AND MAINTAIN CALM ON THE BORDER.\nUNIFIL SPOKESMAN ANDREA TENENTE STRESSES THE IMPORTANCE OF CONTINUED CALM, DESPITE VIOLATIONS BY BOTH SIDES.\n\nAndrea Tenente, UNIFIL Spokesman: "There have been violations from both sides of 1701. What's important to emphasize is there have been violations but also there has been stability in the south of Lebanon."\n\nSTABILITY, YES, BUT ONE WRONG STEP, AND IT COULD BLOW.\nBEN WEDEMAN, CNN, SOUTH LEBANON.\n -----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----\n\n --KEYWORD TAGS--\nLEBANON BORDER WEDEMAN HEZBOLLAH\n\n

Israeli tank fires at Hezbollah targets in the desert surrounding Zaura, a settlement in Northern Israel.

CLEAN: Exterior shots of Israeli tanks massed on Israel's border near Lebanon during the 2006 conflict between Israel and Hizbollah on July 22, 2006 in Beirut, Lebanon.

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Israeli tank fires at Hezbollah targets in the desert surrounding Zaura, a settlement in Northern Israel. Sand and smoke cover the tank.

NAME: MEA POLITICS 20070510I TAPE: EF07/0554 IN_TIME: 10:09:22:12 DURATION: 00:02:22:08 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION/CH10/IBA DATELINE: Various - 10 May 2007/File RESTRICTIONS: see script SHOTLIST AP TELEVISION Jerusalem - 10 May 2007 1. Various of written testimonies 2. Wide of Inquiry committee website 3. Establisher of reserved soldier Yakir Segev 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Yakir Segev, Israeli reserve soldier: "Now the important thing to do is to make department members understand that this is what the public want, I think we showed it at the last big demonstration, I think we should keep on pushing them and keep on making them understand that it is a duty to make the Prime Minister step down." CHANNEL 10 - NO ACCESS ISRAEL Tel Aviv, Israel - recent 5. Various of Winograd Commission members arriving and attending 6. Various meetings of the Commission AP TELEVISION FILE: Israel-Lebanon border, Israeli side - 12 July 2006 7. Soldiers near northern border, audio: gun fire AP TELEVISION FILE: Zarit, northern Israel - 14 July 2006 8. Medium shot of tanks firing artillery IBA - NO ACCESS ISRAEL FILE: Tsfat, northern Israel - 14 July 2006 9. Qatyusha rocket exploding in street AP TELEVISION FILE: Nahariya, northern Israel - 14 July 2006 10. Injured civilian wheeled on stretcher from ambulance to hospital AP TELEVISION FILE: Haifa, northern Israel - 26 July 2006 11. Evacuation of wounded soldiers from Bint Jbail fight been brought to Rambam hospital by chopper STORYLINE Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the government commission that probed last summer's Lebanon war he didn't think there was any option but to strike Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas immediately after they attacked Israel, according to censored minutes of his testimony released on Thursday. During the course of the war Israel bombarded its northern neighbour nationwide, hitting civilian targets, the airport and infrastructure, as well as engaging Hezbollah on the ground in the south. Olmert told the panel he was convinced Hezbollah would send rockets thudding into Israel's northern communities, and that he had two options: do nothing or do something from the very first minute. Much of the criticism aimed at Olmert and his ministers who prosecuted the war resulted from the fact Hezbollah was able to unleash a daily barrage of rockets into northern Israeli towns throughout the conflict. Last week, the commission issued a damning appraisal of how the initial stage of the war was handled by Olmert, Defence Minister Amir Peretz and then-military chief Lieutenant General Dan Halutz, accusing them of acting rashly without considering an adequate range of options. In his testimony, Peretz said Israel expected the war to last 10 to 14 days. The conflict, provoked by a July 12 cross-border Hezbollah raid in which three Israeli soldiers were killed and two were captured, lasted 34 days. While effusively praising the fighting forces as exceptional, he said the military command seriously let itself down during the war, the Haaretz newspaper reported.

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THERE WERE CHANTS OF "DEATH TO ISRAEL AND AMERICA," MONDAY "AT THE LARGEST PROTEST SO FAR IN LEBANON TO AGAINST U-S PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP"S RECOGNITION OF JERUSALEM AS ISRAEL"S CAPITAL. HEZBOLLAH ORGANIZED THE MASSIVE MARCH, WHICH WAS ALSO ATTENDED BY PALESTINIAN GROUPS AND LEBANESE LEFTIST PARTIES. OTHER ARAB COUNTRIES HAVE ALLOWED LIMITED PROTEST 
OVER THE AMERICAN MOVE, BUT IN LEBANON, ALMOST EVERY DAY HAS SEEN DEMONSTRATIONS-PEACEFUL AND OCCASIONALLY OTHERWISE. BEN WEDEMAN REPORTS FROM BEIRUT.

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DEATH TO ISRAEL, GOES THE CHANT, AT THE LARGEST PROTEST SO FAR IN LEBANON TO AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP"S RECOGNITION OF JERUSALEM AS ISRAEL"S CAPITAL…DEATH TO AMERICA! THEY THEN CHANTED.
HEZBOLLAH ORGANIZED THIS MASSIVE MARCH, ATTENDED ALSO BY PALESTINIAN GROUPS AND LEBANESE LEFTIST PARTIES.
OTHER ARAB COUNTRIES HAVE ALLOWED LIMITED PROTEST OVER THE AMERICAN MOVE, BUT IN LEBANON, ALMOST EVERY DAY HAS SEEN DEMONSTRATIONS-PEACEFUL AND OCCASIONALLY OTHERWISE.
ISRAEL INVADED LEBANON MULTIPLE TIMES…ITS TROOPS OCCUPIED PARTS OF THE SOUTH FOR DECADES…UNTIL THEY WITHDREW IN MAY 2000. THE DEPTH OF ANIMOSITY HERE IS GENUINE…AND NOT SURPRISINGLY, ESPECIALLY IN HEZBOLLAH"S STRONGHOLD IN SOUTHERN BEIRUT.
Ali, protester (Arabic, English translation): "Jerusalem is not America"s to give to Israel, SAYS ALI.
 HEZBOLLAH, BACKED BY IRAN, HAS BEEN DEEPLY INVOLVED IN THE WARS IN IRAQ AND SYRIA…
 …WITH THOSE CONFLICTS WINDING DOWN, THE GROUP"S FIGHTERS, BATTLED-HARDENED AND EXPERIENCED, ARE BEGINNING TO RETURN TO LEBANON.
HEBOLLAH FOUGHT ISRAEL TO A STANDSTILL AFTER 34 DAYS OF FIGHTING IN 2006…
HEZBOLLAH SECRETARY GENERAL HASSAN NASRALLAH ADDRESSED THE CROWD, CALLING ON THE PALESTINIANS TO LAUNCH A THIRD INTIFADA…
Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah leader (Arabic, English translation): "Trump"s decision, HE DECLARED, is the beginning of the end for Israel, God willing."
THE WILL TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN IS HERE…JUST NOT THE WAY. YET.
BEN WEDEMAN, CNN, BEIRUT

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JERUSALEM BEIRUT LEBANON HEZBOLLAH 



CLEAN: Exterior shots of IDF troops, tanks and military vehicles gathered on the Lebanese border with distant explosions audiable, as Israeli military vehicles move around during a ground invasion of Lebanon on July 22, 2006 in Kiryat Shmona, Israel.

Israeli warship attacked by Hezbollah, using Iranian missiles. One crew member killed, three others missing.

NAME: LEB HEZBOLLAH 20090814I TAPE: EF09/0774 IN_TIME: 10:35:20:06 DURATION: 00:00:58:07 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION/AL MANAR DATELINE: Beirut - 14 Aug 2009 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: ++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: AL MANAR TELEVISION IS CONTROLLED BY HEZBOLLAH++ AP TELEVISION 1. Wide of Hezbollah supporters watching Nasrallah on screen 2. Mid of women waving with Hezbollah flags and holding Nasrallah photo AL MANAR 3. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah: "It is not easy for any Israeli government to take the decision of launching a war against Lebanon. It is not easy. They have to consider it not one thousand times, but a million." 4. Cutaway Hezbollah supporters 5. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah: "Today we say to you, if you bombard Beirut or a southern suburb, we will bombard Tel Aviv." 6. Wide of supporters 7. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah: "I tell you that you will be crushed and destroyed in our hills and valleys and mountains and villages." 8. Wide of supporters 9. Top shot of supporters STORYLINE: The leader of Lebanon's Islamic militant group Hezbollah on Friday warned Israel that his fighters would hit Tel Aviv with rockets if Israeli forces attacked Beirut or the guerrillas' stronghold in its southern suburbs. Speaking on the anniversary of the end of the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah conflict, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah said the Shiite militants were now capable of striking any Israeli city. The 2006 month long war began when Hezbollah launched a cross-border attack that killed three Israeli soldiers. During the conflict, the Iranian-backed militants rocketed the Israeli port of Haifa and other parts of Israel's north but spared Tel Aviv to the south. In retaliation, Israeli warplanes destroyed entire blocks in Beirut's southern suburbs, including Nasrallah's office and Hezbollah's headquarters. Hezbollah calls the outcome of the war "a divine victory" because Israel failed to crush the militants, who withstood massive Israeli airstrikes and artillery bombardment. The war killed about 1,200 people in Lebanon, most of them civilians, and about 160 in Israel. Nasrallah's speech added to the tension of back-and-forth warnings between Hezbollah and Israel that have escalated since a July 14 explosion at a suspected Hezbollah arms depot near the Israeli border. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel would hold the Lebanese government responsible for any attacks on Israeli targets by Hezbollah. He warned Lebanon against letting Hezbollah join the new government. He said the government in Beirut could not turn a blind eye to Hezbollah's activities while the group sits in the Lebanese parliament and plays a major role in the country's politics. Nasrallah, appearing on a giant screen from his hiding place, addressed thousands of supporters waving yellow Hezbollah flags who gathered for the rally in south Beirut. He said recent Israeli warnings against Lebanon do not signal that Israel is planning to attack soon. He said the Israeli warnings were part of a "psychological war" aimed at preventing the militant group from joining a new Lebanese unity government, whose formation has been stalled since the June 7 election.

CLEAN: Exterior shots IDF at Israel Lebanon border, Israeli soldiers waving captured Lebanon & and Hezbollah flags on July 24, 2006 in UNSPECIFIED, Israel.

<p><b>***FULL INTERVIEW CAN BE DOWNLOADED HERE:***</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p>https://f.io/1hQhgFP3</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p>:00 </p>\n<p>Isa Soares</p>\n<p>London </p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:26 </p>\n<p>Jeffrey Feltman</p>\n<p>Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>5:09</p>\n<p>John Bolton</p>\n<p>Former U.S. National Security Adviser</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--LEAD IN-- </b></p>\n<p>JEFFREY FELTMAN IS A VISITING FELLOW IN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMACY AT BROOKINGS.</p>\n<p>AND HE SERVED AS THE U-S AMBASSADOR TO LEBANON DURING THE 2006 ISRAEL-HEZBOLLAH WAR.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>**ATTENTION AFFILIATES: BELOW IS A ROUGH TRANSCRIPTION PROVIDED BY AN AUTOMATED SERVICE. THIS MAY NOT BE EXACT. PLEASE CHECK FOR ACCURACY BEFORE TAKING TO AIR.**</b></p>\n<p>Ambassador, welcome to the show. Uh As we've just laid out, you were ambassador during the 2006 war. I wonder as you look at what's happening now at this uh aerial offensive at this ground offensive in Southern Lebanon? What you, what stands out to you really in terms of the differences and the similarities here. What strikes, what strikes me of the difference is this is far more dangerous than 2006 was 2006 was a devastating war triggered by a Hezbollah cross-border raid into Israel that killed and kidnapped Israeli soldiers and lasted for 34 days, ended in a stalemate. And both Hezbollah and Israel have spent the last 18 years implementing the lessons learned from that stalemate. Hezbollah's arsenals are bigger. They have more sophisticated weapons, longer range range weapons and they become battle experienced by propping up Bashar Al Bashar al Assad's regime in Syria. The Israelis for their part, have kept their eyes on Hezbollah and have worked on penetrating them in terms of their intelligence, which we've and we've seen the results of that. Already. In the last two weeks, there have been more Lebanese killed than were killed in that entire 34 day war. So when I look at this, I find the, the, the signs to be quite ominous that this is going to be far worse than the war was in 2006 in terms of the type of devastation, um that could be brought upon Lebanon and the Hezbollah, even though Hezbollah's been Hezbollah leadership has been decapitated. Their, their military capabilities have been degraded. They still have considerable abilities to hit back at Israel and particularly the Israeli troops in the South. Yeah, and they're putting up a fight as we've just heard from Ben Wed in southern Lebanon ninth Israeli soldiers being killed just today and back in 2006, it was also ambassador called a limited operation and it lasted what, 34 days and like you said, it was a stalemate. As you look at what's unfolding here. Do you think that this will be any different or any shorter? And just speak to the impact on the region here, the potential impact on the region? Well, I think that the Israelis are, are trying not only to achieve the type of stability that would allow the 60,000 plus Israelis to go home, which is an enormous political humanitarian issue in Israel. But I think the Israelis are also trying to change the strategic balance in the entire Middle East. Hezbollah was not only a Lebanese, you know, political party Militia in our definition, terrorist organization, it was Iran's first line of defense. So by degrading Hezbollah's military capabilities, at least in the short term, Israel is also degrading Iran's deterrence capabilities. So this does have enormous ramifications, terrible humanitarian consequences for Lebanon. But it also has strategic implications for the region at large. As Israel tries to rebalance the powers in the Middle East. Let's focus on that because we have heard part of the strategy is to escalate to de escalate, right? Ambassador. But we have heard a lot in the last few days of military strategy and we've seen military achievements. You've named a couple, but we haven't seen what I haven't heard thus far. Maybe you have is a plan for peace, neither in Gaza nor in Lebanon. Does that worry you? And do you believe that diplomacy can turn this around where? Because so far it seems to have failed. It worries me tremendously. Um And I keep thinking of that famous David Petraeus quote after the um the US, you know, misguided invasion of Iraq in 2003, tell me how this ends because does Israel really want to occupy Gaza again indefinitely and occupy the West Bank indefinitely with a hostile rescue population and occupy southern southern Lebanon? Definitely, I can't imagine any Israeli politician would see that as, as being particularly attractive. The the war right now against Hezbollah in, in Lebanon has great popular support. So it's one time where the Israeli strategic objectives, the Israeli tactical goals of getting people home, the public opinion and Netanyahu's personal interest in maintaining his position and power all coincide. How long will that last? If the casualties rise or if it, if it becomes clear that there's that there's an indefinite occupation in three different, in three different geographic areas with, with no horizon for a political settlement. Yeah, le let's broaden this out to the region because, and I think it's important we bring Iran, we've talked about Hamas or Hezbollah. Let's talk about Iran. Uh President Biden and you would have heard this ambassador and made it very clear just yesterday. I think that he wouldn't want to see any of the Iran's nuclear sites being targeted. We are currently waiting to see how Israel will respond. But I want to play what ambassador John Bolton who served as you well know, as national security adviser under President Donald Trump had to say about this. Have a listen, even if that's his opinion. Why do you tell Israel's adversary? And by the way, America's adversary in Tehran, what you're not going to do? Let them worry about it. You can make the decision but telling them what you're giving up or what you hope the Israelis give up is just a failure of diplomacy. 101. What do you make of those comments and the criticism that's been leveled on President Biden? Well, you, you'll see a great division in this country, not only between Republicans and Democrats, but within the parties about what should happen in the Middle East. Um But what I take away from all this is we are not in the driver's seat. Um You know, the Biden administration called for, called for something other than a full scale invasion of Rafah. Many months ago, there was a full scale invasion of Rafah. They announced that we were on the threshold of a 21 day cease fire between Hezbollah and Israel to allow a Gaza ceasefire negotiations to sort of um ripen that, that didn't happen. And of course, the ga how many times have we heard that the Gaza cease fire um hostage release humanitarian surge deal was, was on the threshold and it hasn't happened. So I simply don't think rightly or wrongly we're in the driver's seat right now and very briefly, why are we not? Why is the Uni United States not in the driver's seat then? Does it speak more to the relationship between President Biden? Uh and Prime Minister Netanyahu? That's been frosty or does it show perhaps point more to, to lack of uh leverage and influence of the United States in the region? How do you read that? I think it's a combi, it's a combination of things. I um I think that the, that the Israelis truly and understandably feel that they, that they have to deal with an existential threat on their northern border the existential threat, the most powerful partner of Iran on their northern border. So there's an existential issue. We are not facing an existential issue. We have a friendship and, um, partnership with, with, with Israel, but it's not the same. And there's our politics who's gonna tell Netanyahu today, you shouldn't go after Hezbollah, you shouldn't try to defend your, your, you know, you should try to defend yourself 33 days before us. Elections. It just, it, it doesn't work politically for us and it doesn't work either politically or strategically for Israel. Yeah. And we heard President Biden say, we don't tell Israel, we advise it uh ambassador, really appreciate you taking the time to speak to us. Thank you, sir. Thank you.</p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>LEBANON ISRAEL STRIKES HEZBOLLAH IN- INTERVIEW </p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--MUSIC INFO---</b></p>\n<p></p>

Large plumes of black smoke rise above Beirut skyline, following air attack by Israelis, during war with Hezbollah.

NAME: LEB NASRALLAH 20080824I TAPE: EF08/0859 IN_TIME: 10:37:29:11 DURATION: 00:01:38:11 SOURCES: Al-Manar TV DATELINE: Beirut, 24 August 2008 RESTRICTIONS: See Script SHOTLIST: ++PLEASE NOTE: AL MANAR TELEVISION IS RUN BY HEZBOLLAH++ 1. Wide of graduates in a hall cheering for Nasrallah 2. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's General secretary: "Your five military divisions will be destroyed in our mountains, valleys, homes and cities along with your state which usurped our holy land, and this is my new promise." 3. Pan right across graduates cheering, raising fists in air 4. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's General Secretary: "Barak, Mofaz, Ashkenazi, and to some extent Livni are threatening and speaking about a new war on us. They are saying it will be fast and accomplish a clear and definite victory. For my part I say, even if we don't want this war to happen, the victory will be on our side and it will be definite and clear to the whole world and it will not leave and doubt about it ." 5. Elevated shot of scouts gathered in hall STORYLINE: The leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, launched a fiery attack on Israel on Sunday, in which he warned of a firm and decisive response to any future Israeli aggression against Lebanon. Sheik Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel that the results and repercussions of another war will exceed that of the inconclusive, month long 2006 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, the mainly Shiite "Party of God". He said the Israeli army will be crushed in any ground offensive "in our mountains, valleys, homes and cities along with your state which usurped our holy land." Nasrallah accused Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister, Shaul Mofaz, Israeli Defence Force Chief of Staff, Gabi Ashkenazi, and Israeli Foreign Minister Tippi Livni of threatening Lebanon with renewed war. "They are saying it will be fast and accomplish a clear and definite victory," he said. "From my part I say even if we don't want this war to happen, the victory will be on our side and it will be definite and clear to the whole world and it will not leave and doubt about it," he added. Nasrallah made the threats at a scout graduation ceremony aired on Hezbollah's Al-Manar Television. The comments came after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel would hit back harder than in the 2006 war, without restrictions if Hezbollah attacked again. Olmert said Israel did not use all means to respond then, but "if Lebanon becomes a Hezbollah state, then we won't have any restrictions in this regard." Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora on Friday sent a letter of protest to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urging him to inform the Security Council's member nations of the "seriousness of the Israeli threats." More than 1,200 Lebanese, most of them civilians, were killed in the 2006 war, which began after Hezbollah captured two Israeli soldiers and killed three others in a cross-border raid. Lebanon's new national unity government has given Hezbollah and their allies veto power over all major decisions and also upheld Hezbollah's right to retain its weapons.

CLEAN: Exterior shots of an Israeli aircraft dropping chaff near the Israeli Lebanese border and smoke and explosions over Lebanese border cities on July 22, 2006 in Kiryat Shmona, Israel.

<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p>Monday</p>\n<p>Beirut, Lebanon</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>September 23, 2024</p>\n<p>Ben Wedeman</p>\n<p>CNN Senior International Correspondent</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--LEAD IN</b>--</p>\n<p>LEBANESE HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY AT LEAST 100 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED AND MORE THAN 400 WOUNDED BY ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES IN LEBANON.</p>\n<p>AS THE IDF SAYS, IT IS CONDUCTING AN INTENSE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HEZBOLLAH TARGETS.</p>\n<p>CLASSES HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED IN SEVERAL REGIONS ACROSS LEBANON TO PROTECT STUDENTS.</p>\n<p>AND THE ISRAELI MILITARY IS WARNING CIVILIANS NOW TO LEAVE AREAS WHERE THE IRAN-BACKED MILITANT GROUP IS OPERATING.</p>\n<p>CNN’S SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT IS IN BEIRUT. WITH MORE DETAILS.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--REPORTER PKG-AS FOLLOWS</b>--</p>\n<p>Ben Wedeman, CNN Senior International Correspondent: For all intents and purposes, war has begun between Hezbollah and Israel with Lebanon caught in the middle. In addition to the at least 100 people reported killed by Israel in these airstrikes, among them women and children, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, more than 400 injured. Now, what we're seeing now is at least 300 airstrikes so far by Israel on mostly southern Lebanon but they struck other parts of the country. These are no doubt the most intense Israeli strikes since the 2006 war in July of that year. What we are seeing is a mass exodus of people from southern Lebanon. The roads coming out of the south are jammed with cars in both lanes, going south and going north. Everybody is on their way out of that area. I was in touch with one person down there. Just total chaos with everybody with towns and cities just being totally evacuated. The Israeli military, for instance, broke into the voice of Lebanon radio station with a message for people who are in houses or near houses where Hezbollah has stored weapons that they should leave immediately. As many as 80,000 people also received on their cell phones similar messages from the Israelis. Now, as you mentioned, the classes in many areas of South and Eastern Lebanon have been canceled as a result of the tensions. The Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has called on the UN and what he called influential countries to deter Israel from carrying on with this military offensive. He said that Israel is planning to destroy villages and towns in Lebanon. So this is really the culmination of building tensions between Israel and Hezbollah going back to last Tuesday when there were those pager blasts across the country that left more than a dozen dead, thousands of injured. The following day, the walkie talkie attacks and then on Friday, the air strike on Beirut that killed at least 50 people in that instance, including a senior Hezbollah commander. So as I said, for all intents and purposes, the long feared war between Lebanon and Israel has begun.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>ISRAEL LEBANON WAR MIDDLE EAST HEZBOLLAH</p>

Attacks on Hezbollah installations bring clouds of black smoke that fill the skies of Beirut, Lebanon.