(24 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Deir Antar, Lebanon – 24 June 2024
1. Scouts holding up images of Moussa Mustafa Hjeij, a Lebanese civilian who died after an Israeli drone attack targeted his home
2. Various of people carrying the coffin of Hjeij
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Jamal Hjeij, brother of Moussa Mustafa Hjeij:
"The martyr’s son was injured. The martyr was hit in the afternoon. The next day, his house was hit. His family weren’t home because they were visiting him at the hospital. He saved his children and family. He died for them and for our homeland and the South (of Lebanon)."
4. Various of women crying close to the coffin
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Thuraya Awada, wife of Moussa Mustafa Hjeij:
"We were at the hospital with our son. The hospital wouldn’t release us without an ID. He (Moussa) went back home to get the ID. They struck the house, and he came to the hospital. This is what happened. God protect the young and be with them. He is blessed and thank God. We are all on this route."
6. Various of mourners around the coffin
STORYLINE:
Mourners gathered in the south of Lebanon Monday for the funeral of a man who died a week after being severely injured in an Israeli drone attack.
Scouts held up a photo of Moussa Mustafa Hjeij as the funeral procession marched through the streets of Deir Antar village.
Last week Hjeij left the hospital where his son was being treated to get identity cards from his house. A drone attack struck his home and injured him.
The following day his family came to visit him only to have their house hit by another drone attack.
"He saved his children and family. He died for them and for our homeland,” his brother Jamal said at the funeral.
Almost daily exchanges of fire have occurred along Lebanon’s frontier with northern Israel since fighters from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip staged a bloody assault on southern Israel in early October that set off a war in Gaza.
The situation to the north worsened this month after an Israeli airstrike killed a senior Hezbollah military commander in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah retaliated by firing hundreds of rockets and explosive drones into northern Israel.
Israeli officials have threatened a military offensive in Lebanon if there is no negotiated end to push Hezbollah away from the border.
Since the latest run of clashes began, more than 400 people have been killed in Lebanon, the vast majority of them fighters but including 70 civilians and non-combatants.
On the Israeli side, 16 soldiers and 11 civilians have been killed. Tens of thousands have been displaced on both sides of the border.
AP video shot by Mohammad Zinaty
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