(4 Oct 2024)
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Minyeh, northern Lebanon – 3 October 2024
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1. Various of coffin of Lebanese army soldier Maher Al-Owaik being carried on shoulders of mourners
2. Various of mourners during prayer
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khodor al-Owaik, cousin of Maher:
"He went to rescue civilians with the civil defense paramedics and the Red Cross. But we are used to the treachery and the betrayal of the Zionists. A drone fired on them and left him a martyr, may God’s mercy be upon him."
5. Mourners offering condolences
STORYLINE:
Mourners held a funeral for a Lebanese army soldier who was killed in an Israeli airstrike while evacuating civilians in southern Lebanon on Thursday.
The Lebanese Red Cross said the strike wounded four of its paramedics and killed Maher Al-Owaik of the Lebanese Army, as they were evacuating wounded people from the south.
It said the convoy near the village of Taybeh, which was accompanied by Lebanese troops, was targeted Thursday despite coordinating its movements with U.N. peacekeepers.
"He went to rescue civilians with the civil defense paramedics and the Red Cross. But we are used to the treachery and the betrayal of the Zionists," said Khodor al-Owaik, the soldier’s cousin, during al-Owaik’s funeral in Minyeh in northern Lebanon.
On the same day, another Lebanese soldier was killed by Israeli fire at an army post in the southern town of Bint Jbeil, according to the Lebanese military, which said it returned fire.
A Lebanese security official, who spoke on condition of anonymity according to regulations, said the army post was hit by artillery fire.
Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire across the Lebanon border almost daily since the day after Hamas’ cross-border attack on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 Israelis and took 250 others hostage.
Hundreds of Israeli airstrikes across large parts of Lebanon since mid-September have killed at least 1,276 people, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.
The strikes in recent weeks have also killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and several of his top commanders.
Nearly 2,000 people have been killed and more than 9,000 wounded in Lebanon since the fighting began nearly a year ago.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military said earlier this week it was carrying out a limited ground incursion in southern Lebanon, and announced that at least nine Israeli soldiers have been killed in clashes with Hezbollah.
AP video shot by Yahia Al Habashty
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