(23 Sep 2024)
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Habbouch, Lebanon – 23 September 2024
1. Various of smoke rising after an Israeli strike hits the town of Habbouch, UPSOUND screaming in background
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Jerusalem – 23 September 2024
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Federman, The Associated Press:
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"Israeli warplanes are striking targets across southern and eastern Lebanon in what has become the deadliest day in that country since a 2006 war. Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging fire almost daily for nearly a year since Israel went to war against Hamas militants in Gaza. But the tensions have been rising over the past week. First, there were the exploding pagers and walkie talkies in Lebanon in attacks that were attributed to Israel. Then Israel assassinated a top Hezbollah commander. Hezbollah has responded with increasingly heavy barrages of rocket fire on northern Israel. Israel has now begun using a tactic that we’ve seen in Gaza. It has issued evacuation orders to villages in Lebanon where where it plans on striking. Israel says Hezbollah uses these areas to hide its weapons. Israel says it has struck hundreds of targets and inflicted heavy damage on Hezbollah. But scores of people have been killed and thousands of people are now being forced to evacuate their homes with no knowledge of when they’ll be able to return. Hezbollah shows no signs of backing down and continues to fire these heavy barrages of rocket fire that have crippled life across northern Israel. The Israelis say if things do not quiet down, they are going to take even tougher action in the coming days."
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southern Beirut, Lebanon – 22 September 2024
3. Various of Hezbollah members carrying coffins of the group’s commander
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Habbouch, Lebanon – 23 September 2024
4. Various of traffic jam
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Habbouch, Lebanon – 23 September 2024
5. Various of smoke rising
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Habbouch, Lebanon – 23 September 2024
6. Wide of traffic jam
STORYLINE:
Israeli strikes on Monday killed more than 270 Lebanese in the deadliest barrage since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war as the Israeli military warned residents in southern and eastern Lebanon to evacuate their homes ahead of a widening air campaign against Hezbollah.
Thousands of Lebanese fled the south, and the main highway out of the southern port city of Sidon was jammed with cars heading toward Beirut in the biggest exodus since the 2006 fighting.
More than 1,000 other people were wounded in the strikes — a staggering one-day toll for a country still reeling from a deadly attack on communication devices last week.
The Associated Press’ Joe Federman explained how Israel was now repeating a tactic it had used in Gaza by ordering civilians away from their homes before conducting further strikes against what it says are Hezbollah targets.
Monday’s death toll surpassed that of Beirut’s devastating port explosion in 2020, when hundreds of tons of ammonium nitrate stored in a warehouse detonated, killing at least 218 people and wounding more than 6,000.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah said in a statement that it fired dozens of rockets toward Israel, including at military bases.
It also targeted for a second day the facilities of the Rafael defense firm, headquartered in Haifa.
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