(25 Sep 2024)
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Baalbek, Lebanon – 25 September 2024
1. Smoke cloud rising as a result of Israeli airstrike
2. Aftermath of Israeli strikes
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali Moussawi, injured farmer:
"The day before yesterday, we were having a normal day, working on the land, farming. But then, while we were walking on the land, the criminal Zionist aircraft targeted a house next to us. Shrapnel flew towards us, injuring me in the stomach and my brother-in-law in the neck. They transferred us to the hospital immediately. Thank God, anyway."
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali Moussawi, injured farmer:
"Thank God we survived this time. Our patience comes from the patience of our wounded young (fighters) and those martyred. We are no better than them."
5. Various of injured farmer Ali Moussawi in the hospital
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Soumaya Moussawi, injured woman:
"My father was martyred. He was our pride and glory. We are strong, and no matter what they (Israel) do, we will remain strong and stand with them (Hezbollah). May God grant them victory and keep them safe."
7. Damage and debris in aftermath of Israeli strikes
STORYLINE:
While Lebanese officials announced the death toll from three days of Israeli bombardment on Wednesday had surpassed 600, scores of people have also been left with severe wounds.
At the Dar al-Amal Hospital in Bekaa, hundreds of new patients were being treated for various injuries sustained in the Israeli attacks.
Israel has been pounding Lebanon with airstrikes since Monday over what it says are Hezbollah weapons and positions, with Bekaa one of the hardest-hit areas.
Strikes since Monday have killed more than 600 people and wounded more than 2,000 others, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
Ali Moussawi, an injured farmer from the town of Nabi Chit, said he and his relatives were working on the land when an Israeli airstrike hit a house next to them.
"Shrapnel flew towards us, injuring me in the stomach and my brother-in-law in the neck," he said, speaking from his hospital bed.
This week has been the deadliest in Lebanon since the bruising monthlong war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006.
Soumaya Moussawi, who was also being treated at the hospital, said they were "all thrown in different directions" when the strike hit next to them.
"My two cousins and my father were killed, and another cousin is still in critical condition," she said.
Earlier on Wednesday, Israeli military officials said they intercepted Hezbollah’s surface-to-surface missile, which set off air-raid sirens in Tel Aviv and across central Israel.
There were no reports of casualties or damage.
Hezbollah said it fired a Qader 1 ballistic missile targeting the headquarters of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, which it blames for a recent string of targeted killings of its top commanders and for an attack last week in which explosives hidden in pagers and walkie-talkies killed dozens of people and wounded thousands, including many Hezbollah members.
Tensions between Israel and the Lebanese militant group have steadily escalated over the last 11 months.
Hezbollah has been firing rockets, missiles and drones into northern Israel in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and Hamas, another Iran-backed militant group.
Israel has responded with increasingly heavy airstrikes and the targeted killing of Hezbollah commanders while threatening a wider operation.
Nearly a year of fighting had already displaced tens of thousands of people on both sides of the border before the recent escalation.
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