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Today on Flashpoints:
Today on Flashpoints, Israel and the United States intensify their aerial attacks on Lebanon from the southern border to the Mediterranean sea, including the killing of 26 farmworkers picking nectarines at the Syrian border and the destruction of a school for hearing-and sight-impaired children; also, special correspondent Bilal el-Amine visits a school-turned-shelter in the south: the school’s founder was killed by an Israeli missile on the second day of the siege; we’ll get a report from Beirut on the growing number of displaced Lebanese flooding the city; and on Flashpoints en Espanol, John Ross reports on a series of civil disobedience actions to protest electoral fraud in Mexico;

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5:01 PM PST
Introduction
Dennis and Francisco

5:05 PM PST
Israel Continues its US-Supported Attacks on Lebanon
Bilal el-Amine, Left Turn Magazine, FP Special Correspondent
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

5:27 PM PST
The Continued Bombing of Beirut
Abdul Rahman Zaza, NGO worker and fire engineer
Interviewed by Dennis Bernstein

5:55 PM PST
Flashpoints en Espanol: Electoral Fraud in Mexico
Miguel Guerrero with John Ross

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