Watch: Lebanese refugees fleeing Israeli strikes arrive in Turkey
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Your support makes all the difference.Watch again as Lebanese people who fled their country out of fear for their safety amid Israel’s strikes arrived in southern Turkey on a ferry on Thursday, 3 October.
It comes after Israel and Hezbollah, a group backed by Iran, clashed in intense ground battles in southern Lebanon for the first time in nearly two decades.
Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed Iran “will pay” after it fired at least 180 ballistic missiles at Israel.
The Israeli prime minister vowed to defeat Iran’s “Axis of Evil”, saying: “We are at the height of a difficult war... we will stand together and with God’s help, we will win together.”
Israel then launched an airstrike in Beirut, in which at least six people were killed as it targeted a building near the parliament.
This strike marked the closest an air assault has come to the central downtown district.
It came after Israel suffered its first military casualties in its ground invasion of southern Lebanon, with eight Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers killed in intense clashes against Hezbollah.
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