(26 Aug 2024)
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Bourj Al-Muluk, Southern Lebanon – 26 August 2024
1. Various of Khiam town seen from Marjayoun
2. Smoke rises due to shelling
3. Car passing at a roundabout in Bourj Al-Muluk border village
4. Cross
5. Empty street
6. UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon) post
7. Al-Jouki house with Lebanese flag
8. Lebanese flag fluttering
9. Various of Al-Jouki Family sitting outside its house
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic), Jamil Al-Kouki, Resident:
“I am a Lebanese citizen who has properties, I would like to go and see my belongings, but I cannot. I cannot go into my house and sleep with peace of mind. What can I say? Our land is around us, but we cannot go there, we cannot. We are sitting drinking coffee and smoking with oppression and fear.”
11. Various of a boy driving his electric motorcycle
12. Rami Al-Jouki walking
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic), Rami Al-Jouki, Resident:
“I am 20 years old. For 11 months, we have remained in the South (of Lebanon) resolute but without work. I used to work in an aluminium workshop but now that is gone. I have been unemployed for 11 months, I have been searching for a job and everyone is telling me to come back when the war ends. I want to help my sister in her university (tuition), I want to help my mother and my father in the (home) expenses, there is nothing”
14. Driving shot
15. Metula town in northern Israel as seen from Lebanon
STORYLINE:
Lebanese villagers living near Israel who have not fled their villages are suffering fear and unemployment.
Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Sunday launched their heaviest exchange of fire after months of strikes and counterstrikes, raising fears of an all-out war that could potentially draw in the United States, Iran and militant groups across the region.
Residents in the small border of Bourj Al-Muluk expressed their fears.
Jamil Al-Jouki, a landlord of farms and grape vines expressed his fear of the ongoing war saying “Our land is around us, but we cannot go there, we cannot. We are sitting drinking coffee and smoking with oppression and fear”
He added that he cannot sleep properly nowadays due to the shelling and the airstrikes saying: “I cannot go into my house and sleep with peace of mind.”
Sunday’s exchange of fire did not set off a long-feared war, and the heavy firepower and lack of civilian casualties might allow both sides to claim a sort of victory and step back. But tensions remain high.
Hezbollah began firing rockets and drones at Israel shortly after the outbreak of the war in Gaza, which was triggered by Hamas’ surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7.
Hezbollah and Hamas are allies, each backed by Iran. Israel has responded with airstrikes.
More than 500 people have been killed in Lebanon by Israeli strikes since Oct. 8, most of them fighters with Hezbollah and other armed groups but also more than 100 civilians and noncombatants.
In northern Israel, 23 soldiers and 26 civilians have been killed by strikes from Lebanon. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced on both sides of the tense border.
AP video by Bassam Hatoum
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