(6 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wadi Jilou, Lebanon – 6 June 2024
1. Wide of destroyed building hit by Israeli airstrike
2. Wide of rubble from building hit by Israeli airstrike
3. Various of destroyed truck
4. Wide of destroyed car
5. Various of destroyed Wadi Jilou municipality truck
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Shurayki, witness:
"The first strike hit and the second was right after it. And we flew, we didn’t know what happened to us."
7. Pan of destroyed buildings
8. Tilt down of fire in building
9. Various of firefighters battling fire
10. Destruction
11. Mid of photo of Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah group
12. Various of Hassan Izzedine, member of the Lebanese parliament for Hezbollah Party, inspecting damage
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hassan Izzedine, member of the Lebanese parliament for Hezbollah Party:
"The Israeli reality is that it is at a dead end. It is a reality where the Israeli is floundering. He does not know what to do or how to get out of his predicament or better yet predicaments including political, security and military predicaments, in addition to all other internal issues in Zionism. Therefore, we say to him: If you think that the bombing of civilians will remain unanswered, then you are delusional."
14. Various of destruction
STORYLINE:
Overnight Israeli strikes on several villages across southern Lebanon caused widespread damage and fires in several buildings in the town of Wadi Jilou.
The Israeli military said that overnight it struck a weapons depot in Wadi Jilou, in addition to several strikes around other villages in the south.
Ahmed Shurayki was at home sleeping when the airstrike hit.
"The first strike hit and the second was right after it. And we flew, we didn’t know what happened to us," he said.
A fire started after the strike and firefighters were still battling it on Thursday.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that the strike took place "on an uninhabited house and (led to) the ignition of a fire in a number of houses," including a cleaning supply warehouse.
It said the strike caused damage to dozens of homes and severe damage to the town’s infrastructure.
Hezbollah denies that it was a weapons depot.
Hassan Izzedin, a Lebanese lawmaker with the Hezbollah Party, visited the site of the strike on Thursday.
Addressing Israeli leaders, he said "if you think that the bombing of civilians will remain unanswered, then you are delusional."
Israeli fire has killed more than 400 people in Lebanon, most of them fighters but also including more than 70 civilians and noncombatants.
Sixteen soldiers have been killed in Israel’s north since October, along with 10 civilians.
Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging fire daily since a day after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, which set off the war in Gaza.
The deadly fighting has displaced tens of thousands of people on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon border and sparked fears of a wider regional war.
AP video shot by Mohamad Zinaty
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