(31 Jul 2024)
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Southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon – 31 July 2024
1. Various of excavators removing rubble
2. Various of Lebanese officials visiting the site of the Israeli strike
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Maj. Gen. Mohammad Kheir, secretary-general of the High Relief Committee, Lebanon’s government relief agency:
"As the High Relief Committee, we have spoken with the prime minister about conducting an initial tour to explore and assess all the damages, especially concerning the martyrs and the wounded as this matter is of concern to us."
4. Kheir with Lebanese official
5. Till-down from building damaged by Israeli strike to debris
6. Technician on power column connecting cable
7. Tilt-down from cables to street and people at site
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Maj. Gen. Mohammad Kheir, secretary-general of the High Relief Committee, Lebanon’s government relief agency: ++SOUNDBITE IN RESPONSE TO QUESTION ON WHETHER OR NOT THE LEBANESE STATE WILL RESPOND++
"This depends on the decisions of the state or the decisions that are made on the ground. As the Lebanese people and as a state, we publicly do not accept anyone attacking us."
9. Various of building damaged by strike
STORYLINE:
The head of Lebanon’s government relief agency and several ministers from the country’s caretaker government visited on Wednesday the site of an Israeli strike in southern Beirut.
Israel on Tuesday carried out a rare strike on Beirut, which it said killed a top Hezbollah commander who was allegedly behind a weekend rocket attack that killed 12 young people in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights.
The strike in the Lebanese capital killed at least one woman and two children and wounded dozens of people.
"We have spoken with the prime minister about conducting an initial tour to explore and assess all the damages," said Maj. Gen. Mohammad Kheir, the secretary-general of the High Relief Committee.
Kheir spoke after inspecting the site and the targeted building.
The airstrike on Beirut’s southern suburb of Haret Hreik — a crowded urban neighborhood where Hezbollah has political and security operations but which is also full of small shops and apartment buildings — damaged several buildings.
Hezbollah said early Wednesday that Fouad Shukur was in the building that was struck twice reportedly by an Israeli drone, but are still searching for the body.
AP video shot by Fadi Tawil and Mahamad Anouti
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