(21 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Yaroun village, southern Lebanon – 21 June 2024
1. Road sign
2. Pan of damaged car and building
3. Various of destroyed buildings and rubble
4. Various of destroyed car
5. Pan of destroyed buildings
6. Various of people walking through rubble
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hatem Hammoud, local resident:
"This is not new for the Zionist enemy, sending a drone and bombing funeral processions in Aitaroun, Maroun and Yaroun. We will certainly remain here and this will not scare us. Even if they do this more, a million times over, we are here and we will stay here until our last breath. May God protect these young men and this country, and God willing, we will return with victory in our hands."
8. Various of destroyed buildings
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Maryam Alawiya, local resident:
"We have come to the village many times. We come on every occasion and we never abandon our village. In every sad or happy occasion, we try to come and during the holidays. But today, Yaroun is sad and crying."
10. Various of damage inside a church
11. Exterior of damaged church
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Maryam Alawiya, local resident:
"We are sad now, all of us are sad. But we always hope that our God will grant us victory and return us to our land."
13. Various of damaged properties and rubble
STORYLINE:
Residents of a Lebanese southern border village sifted through rubble and surveyed the damage after Israeli strikes hit the area over recent months.
Yaroun village is among the hardest hit in south Lebanon and many of its residents have fled to safer areas in the north of Lebanon.
"We never abandon our village," said one local, Maryam Alawiya.
"Today, Yaroun is sad and crying," she added.
The Lebanon-Israel border has witnessed almost daily exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and Israel’s military that have left more than 400 people dead in Lebanon since the Israel-Hamas war erupted.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah has new weapons and intelligence capabilities that could help it target more critical positions deeper inside Israel in case of an all-out war, the militant group’s leader warned earlier this week.
Hassan Nasrallah’s comments came as the monthslong cross-border conflict simmering between Hezbollah and Israel appears to be reaching a boiling point, and a day after a top U.S. envoy met Lebanese officials in his latest attempt to ease tensions.
Hezbollah has used locally made explosive drones for the first time since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza in October, as well as surface-to-air missiles to chase off Israeli jets.
AP video shot by Mohammad Zinaty
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