(29 Jan 2025)
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Nabatiyeh al-Fawqa, Lebanon – 29 January 2025
1. Wide of playground struck in Israel airstrike
2. Mid of crater in ground
3. Various of damage and people moving debris
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Haitham Alam, manager of the Farah Rest House:
"This city is meant as an entertainment facility for children. It has an amusement park, restaurants, a swimming pool and a spa. It is meant for entertainment purposes, but the Israelis couldn’t face the guys, whom God protects, up at the border. They want to take it out on the children."
5. Various of destruction and damaged bumper cars
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Haitham Alam, manager of the Farah Rest House:
“The losses as you can see, are really big, but compared to what is happening and the men (we lost), we feel like it is silly, and we don’t talk about it. It is behind us. And God willing, we will return better than we were."
7. Various of people and damage
STORYLINE:
A large crater sits beside an amusement park hit by an Israeli airstrike —one of two attacks on Tuesday that wounded 36 people north of the Litani River in Lebanon’s Nabatiyeh province, the health ministry said.
Twenty people were wounded in the strike on Farah Rest House, an amusement park for families in Nabatiyeh al-Fawqa.
The attack left the park in ruins, with shattered bumper cars, a twisted Ferris wheel, a damaged carousel and debris strewn across the grounds.
"This city is meant as an entertainment facility for children. It has an amusement park, restaurants, a swimming pool and a spa. It is meant for entertainment purposes," said aid Haitham Alam, manager of the Farah Rest House.
The other strike on Tuesday hit Zawtar town, which overlooks the Litani river, an hour away from the strike on the park.
The Israeli military said in a statement that it had “struck a Hezbollah truck and an additional vehicle that transferred weapons” to “eliminate the threat.”
The two strikes both hit areas north of Lebanon’s Litani River.
Under a U.N. resolution and a ceasefire agreement that halted the Israel-Hezbollah war in November, the Hezbollah militant group is not allowed to have a military presence south of the river.
On Wednesday, an Israeli drone strike wounded five people in southern Lebanon, the country’s Health Ministry reported.
The strike hit Majdal Selm, where residents were protesting to access their lands after a ceasefire deadline between Hezbollah and Israel was extended.
Since Sunday, the original deadline, protests have been held daily. The Israeli military has responded with gunfire, killing 26 people.
The ceasefire deal took effect in late November, giving both sides 60 days to withdraw from southern Lebanon and for the Lebanese army and U.N. peacekeepers to deploy in the area.
Israel did not withdraw by the deadline, and on Sunday, the U.S. and Lebanon announced an extension until Feb. 18.
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