(28 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut – 28 March 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Bassem Mroue, The Associated Press:
++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY COVERED++
"Israel carried out its first airstrike on Beirut since November 27 when a ceasefire went into effect marking the end of the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war. The airstrike on Beirut came hours after two rockets were fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel. Israel’s defense minister warned after the rockets were fired that Beirut will be attacked after the attack on Kiryat Shmona. Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said it was not behind the attack. The attack came less than a week since also three rockets were fired into northern Israel."
2. Various of people gathering at strike site
3. Security, rescue personnel at the site of strike
4. Mid of electricity cables falling
5. Damaged buildings
6. Security, rescue personnel on site
7. Pan of destruction
STORYLINE:
Israel on Friday launched an attack on Lebanon’s capital for the first time since a ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war in November.
Associated Press reporters in Beirut heard a loud boom and witnessed smoke rising from an area in the city’s southern suburbs that Israel’s military had vowed to strike.
It marked Israel’s first strike on Beirut since a ceasefire took hold last November between it and the Hezbollah militant group, though Israel has attacked targets in southern Lebanon almost daily since then.
Israel’s army said it had hit a Hezbollah drone storage facility in Dahiyeh, which it called a militant stronghold. The strike came after Israel, which accuses Hezbollah of using civilians as human shields, warned residents to evacuate the area.
The area struck is a residential and commercial area and is close to at least two schools.
Israeli officials said the attack was retaliation for rockets it said had been fired from Lebanon into northern Israel. They promised strikes on Beirut would continue unless Lebanon’s government worked to ensure such attacks ceased.
Hezbollah denied firing the rockets, and accused Israel of seeking a pretext to continue attacking Lebanon.
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