(26 Jan 2025)
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Mays El Jabal, Lebanon – 26 January 2025
1. Wide of the Slouki Valley
2. Various of a bulldozer removing a blockade out of the road leading to Mays El Jabal
3. Lebanese army blocking road to Slouki Valley
4. Various of residents of Mays El Jabal and neighboring villages walking towards their villages
5. Various of villagers crossing blockade on road leading to Mays El Jabal
6. Various of young man injured while trying to cross towards Mais El Jabal
7. Car crossing blockades
8. Crowd gathered
9. Israeli Merkava tank blocking entrance to Mays El Jabal village
10. Israeli quadcopter hovering over entrance to Mays El Jabal village
11. Various of people gathering at the entrance of Mays El Jabal
12. Various of military vehicles in the road
13. Women walking along a street
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Name not given, local resident:
“My house is in Mays El Jabal. In the end, this is our land. If the army does not want to open the road for us, we will open it ourselves.”
15. Various of people gathering at the entrance of Mays El Jabal village
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Name not given, local resident:
“We came to show the people who say that through negotiations and international resolutions rights can be restored, that this is impossible. Rights can only be restored through force.”
17. Various of people sitting and gathered at the entrance to Mays El Jabal village
STORYLINE:
Residents crossed an earth blockade as they returned to the village of Mays El Jabal in southern Lebanon on Sunday, with Israeli forces still present in the area.
Israeli forces in southern Lebanon on Sunday opened fire on protesters demanding their withdrawal in line with a ceasefire agreement, killing at least 15 and injuring more than 80, Lebanese health officials reported.
The dead included two women and two Lebanese army soldiers, the Health Ministry said in a statement.
People were reported wounded in more than a dozen villages in the border area.
Demonstrators, some of them carrying Hezbollah flags, attempted to enter several villages to protest Israel’s failure to withdraw from southern Lebanon by the 60-day deadline stipulated in a ceasefire agreement that halted the Israel-Hezbollah war in late November.
Israel has said that it needs to stay longer because the Lebanese army has not deployed to all areas of southern Lebanon to ensure that Hezbollah does not reestablish its presence in the area.
The Lebanese army has said it cannot deploy until Israeli forces withdraw.
The Israeli army blamed Hezbollah for stirring up Sunday’s protests.
It said in a statement that its troops fired warning shots to “remove threats in a number of areas where suspects were identified approaching.”
It added that a number of suspects in proximity to Israeli troops were apprehended and were being questioned.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said in a statement addressing the people of southern Lebanon on Sunday that “Lebanon’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are non-negotiable, and I am following up on this issue at the highest levels to ensure your rights and dignity.”
He urged them to “exercise self-restraint and trust in the Lebanese Armed Forces.”
The Lebanese army, in a separate statement, said it was escorting civilians into some towns in the border area and called on residents to follow military instructions to ensure their safety.
He called Sunday morning for residents of the border area not to attempt to return to their villages.
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