(19 Jun 2024)
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Kiryat Shmona, Israel – 19 June 2024
1. Tilt up from street to interceptions in sky UPSOUND: explosions
2. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Uri Vazana, Israeli citizen:
“Yes, this is the routine. You don’t know when this is coming. Now there were interceptions here just like you have seen, we left the car, we live with this”
Reporter (Hebrew) : “Scary?”
Uri Vazana (Hebrew): “Yes it is scary, because you don’t know when it is coming to you, suddenly you have an alarm, suddenly missiles fall.”
3. Man running away from vehicle UPSOUND siren and explosions
4. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Shishi Phima, local resident:
“To live here is not easy. To be here is not easy. It is scary. It is unbearable. It can’t be contained. It is impossible to live with it. I hope there will be a good end to this whole thing, this is the most important.”
5. Various of building with broken windows from previous attacks
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Yarden Haziza, Kiryat Shmona resident:
“Living right now in Kiryat Shmona is very sad. The city is empty most of the time. Most of the businesses in the city are closed. Here in “Baget Shlomi” a lot of people eat here, soldiers, people in (army) reserve, and all of the citizens that stayed here, people from all the area that came here for arrangements to check out their homes, if everything is still ok. It is a great place to eat here, (I am) so happy it is open. It feels just a bit normal like before the war.”
7. Workers working in restaurant
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Yarden Haziza, Kiryat Shmona resident:
“I want to be optimistic, I want to say that everything will be alright, and the people are going to come back to here and the north is going to live again. Everything is going to be ok, I hope.”
9. Soldiers walking in street
10. Various of closed shops
11. Various of damaged vehicle from previous attacks
12. Police vehicle driving in empty street
13. Various of holes in house from previous attacks
14. Various of hole in building from previous attacks
15. Various of burnt trees from previous attacks
16. Various of Kiryat Shmona
STORYLINE:
The Israeli army said 15 rockets were fired by Hezbollah from southern Lebanon towards the city of Kiryat Shmona, near the Israel-Lebanon border, on Wednesday.
“It is scary,” said Uri Vazan an Israeli resident living in the north of the country.
"You don’t know when it is coming to you, suddenly you have an alarm, suddenly missiles fall.”
Shishi Phima, a Kiryat Shmona resident, echoed the sentiment.
"It is unbearable," he said.
"It is impossible to live with it. I hope there will be a good end to this whole thing, this is the most important.”
Earlier Wednesday the Hezbollah militant group said at least three of its fighters were killed in Israeli strikes as a U.S. envoy works to quell tensions.
Lebanese state media reported multiple Israeli strikes along the border and in an area north of the coastal city of Tyre, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the frontier.
The Israeli military said two Hezbollah launches damaged several vehicles in northern Israel.
The fighting came as Amos Hochstein, a senior adviser to U.S. President Joe Biden, returned to Israel after meeting with officials in Lebanon on Tuesday.
There has been no word on whether he has made progress in his efforts to avoid a devastating regional war.
Hezbollah began attacking Israel almost immediately after the Israel-Hamas war erupted on October 7.
There have been near daily exchanges of fire, though most of the strikes are confined to an area around the border.
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