(8 Oct 2024)
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Sidon, Lebanon – 8 October 2024
1. Various of fishing boats docked
2. Close of Lebanese flag
3. Various of fishing boats docked
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Baouje, Sidon fisherman:
"You have about 400 or 500 fishermen who need to make a living; they need to eat and feed their families. If they don’t work for a day, they could end up begging on the street. Israel is banning us from going out to sea, which doesn’t make sense. What can we find in the sea? There’s nothing there to justify stopping the fishermen from going out."
5. Empty chairs
6. Fishing net
7. Various of fishing nets on the dock
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Bedawe, Sidon fisherman:
"We used to get around 2,000 kilograms of fish (a day) from Sidon’s fishermen before this ban was announced. Today we got barely 200, 300, or 400 kilograms because of Israel’s ban, it was a fourth of the amount we usually get, and we have no alternative."
9. Various of fish market almost empty and fishermen working
10. Exterior of fish market
STORYLINE:
Fishermen in Lebanon’s coastal city of Sidon say they’re struggling to make ends meet after Israel warned everyone to stay away from sea.
The Israeli military warned residents to evacuate from over a dozen towns and villages in southwestern Lebanon, including the coastal town of Naqoura, where U.N. peacekeepers are headquartered.
"You have about 400 or 500 fishermen who need to make a living; they need to eat and feed their families," Mohammed Baouje, a fisherman from Sidon said.
"If they don’t work for a day, they could end up begging on the street. Israel is banning us from going out to sea, which doesn’t make sense. What can we find in the sea? There’s nothing there to justify stopping the fishermen from going out," he added.
Israel has called on people to evacuate several dozen communities across southern Lebanon, many of them north of a U.N.-declared buffer zone established after the Israel-Hezbollah war in 2006.
Israel says its operations are aimed at halting a year of Hezbollah rocket attacks so that tens of thousands of its citizens can return to their homes in the north.
Hezbollah has vowed to keep up the attacks until there is a cease-fire in Gaza.
The fighting, which escalated in mid-September, has displaced over 1 million Lebanese.
AP video shot by Mohammad Zanaty
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