'Bags of sweets amid rubble of flattened Beirut building'

The BBC's Hugo Bachega reports from the scene of an overnight Israeli strike in Lebanon.

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The BBC's Hugo Bachega visited the scene of one strike in southern Beirut and found a building completely flattened.

He said residents told him there was a sweet shop in the building hit - and saw purple bags with the name Akkawi Sweets in the rubble.

Israel accuses Hezbollah of hiding its facilities in residential areas and under civilian buildings.

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