(24 Sep 2024)
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Bekaa Valley, Lebanon – 24 September 2024
1. Pan right on building reduced to rubble following Israeli airstrikes
2. Various of car and building in rubble
3. Wide of street with smoke in the background
4. Various of street
5. Various of excavator by the rubble
6. Person by a damaged structure
STORYLINE:
Residential buildings were reduced to rubble in the Bekaa Valley after Israeli airstrikes killed hundreds in Lebanon and forced thousands to flee their areas.
Lebanon’s health ministry said the strikes killed 492 people, including 35 children and 58 women, and wounded 1,645 people — a staggering one-day toll for a country still reeling from a deadly attack on communication devices last week. The attack is the deadliest barrage since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war.
Some strikes hit residential areas in the south and the eastern Bekaa Valley. One hit a wooded area as far away as Byblos, more than 80 miles (130 kilometers) from the border north of Beirut.
Israel said it was expanding the airstrikes to include areas of the valley along Lebanon’s eastern border with Syria. Hezbollah has long had an established presence in the valley, where the group was founded in 1982 with the help of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in the wake of Israel’s invasion and occupation of Lebanon.
Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad said the earlier strikes hit hospitals, medical centers and ambulances. The government ordered schools and universities to close across most of the country and began preparing shelters for the displaced.
Israel’s military chief, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, said Israel was preparing its “next phases” of operations against Hezbollah, and that its airstrikes were “proactive,” targeting Hezbollah infrastructure built over the past 20 years.
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 2006.
AP video by Suleiman Amhaz
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