(19 Aug 2024)
LEBANON HUMANITARIAN DAY
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Hebbariye, Lebanon – 19 August 2024
1. Destruction, sign reading (Arabic): "Hebbariye massacre"
2. Destruction at site where an Israeli airstrike hit a paramedic center affiliated with the Islamic Group
3. Various of people standing in honor of those killed during humanitarian work
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Imran Riza, United Nations Deputy Special Coordinator for Lebanon:
"We’re here to underline that humanitarians are on the front lines. Humanitarians are there to provide assistance and protection to civilians. We need to ensure that humanitarians are protected and that civilians are protected. Wars have rules, these rules have to be respected."
5. Various of flowers and Lebanese flag on top of rubble
6. Rubble
7. Various of families of humanitarian workers who were killed
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Sharif Atawi, relative of one of those killed in Hebbariye:
"The consolation lies in the hope that God will accept them as martyrs. As martyrs, they will get more than they could have dreamt of. And that is enough for us. God will accept them as martyrs because they fell into the fangs of the biggest of criminals of our era."
9. Various of destruction
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Nasser Yassin, minister of environment and head of Lebanon’s emergency task force:
"We are here to stand with their parents, with the community to say that this has to stop. We need to stop targeting civilians, targeting the peaceful land here in south Lebanon. There has been systemic aggression on the villages and towns of south Lebanon. We have more than 100,000 displaced Lebanese. We still have 60,000 people, being here, facing all the aggression and all the attacks, and doing all their best to remain in their lands."
11. Destruction, sign reading (Arabic): "Hebbariye massacre"
12. Various of Lebanese health workers at site
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Imran Riza, United Nations Deputy Special Coordinator for Lebanon:
"This has to stop. We have to make sure that we have access, that we have safe access to help those in need. And we have to look for a political solution. We have to look and hope and push. There are many that are trying to do this – to not have this come back and to really provide some solutions which are not humanitarian, which are always political."
14. Destruction
15. Various of sign reading (Arabic): "Hebbariye massacre"
STORYLINE:
Dozens of Lebanese humanitarian workers honored the memory of peers killed by an Israeli airstrike in March while they were on the job.
They gathered at the site of the strike, in the small Lebanese village of Hebbariye, where seven workers at a paramedic center were killed.
The gathering on Monday was also held in commemoration of World Humanitarian Day.
"We’re here to underline that humanitarians are on the front lines. Humanitarians are there to provide assistance and protection to civilians," said Imran Riza, the United Nations deputy special coordinator for Lebanon.
The Israeli airstrike in March hit a paramedic center affiliated with the Islamic Group, killing seven of its members in the village of Hebbariye.
"We are here to stand with their parents, with the community to say that this has to stop," said Environment Minister Nasser Yassin, who leads Lebanon’s emergency task force.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah has launched drones and rockets into Israel on a near-daily basis since the start of the war, and Israel has responded with airstrikes and artillery.
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