(24 Sep 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jdeidet Yabou, Syria – 24 September 2024
1. Tilt down of front of bus
2. Child in bus
3. Family in bus
4. Interior of bus with family
5. Children in bus
6. People standing with bags
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Umm Ali, fled from Lebanese city of Baalbek:
“The situation is difficult and frightening, you can’t leave children in a situation like that there. It’s because of that. So how was the coming? it was very difficult, the road is very difficult, I mean we are coming to Syria, but now we said we are leaving in the morning and we are still on the journey. The children couldn’t bear the situation. And I didn’t want to leave them there.”
8. Man standing in front of his car
9. Various of people sitting on ground
10. Car with family gathered around it
11. Bags of floor
12. SOUNDBITE( Arabic) Umm Ali, fled from Lebanese city of Baalbek:
"Yes, there are many of our neighbours, many of our neighbours. There are over 10 and these are the people that we know. And there are many others but they are acquaintances. There are more than 100, in the areas close to us.”
13. Wide of people walking at Syrian-Lebanese border
14. Various of border and vehicles driving
STORYLINE:
Lines of cars extended several kilometres from the Lebanese border Tuesday as their occupants, fleeing after a massive Israeli bombardment of Lebanon, waited for hours to cross to the – relative – safety of Syria.
On the other side of the border, families who had gotten through sat on the side of the road glumly, some using their bags as seats, waiting for taxis, buses or relatives to come to pick them up.
Many had already sat in traffic on the other side of the border for eight or nine hours.
A woman from the Lebanese city of Baalbek, who gave her name only as Umm Ali, or "mother of Ali," said that at least ten of her neighbours were killed in the bombing.
"There are over 10 and these are the people that we know. And there are many others but they are acquaintances. There are more than 100, in the areas close to us," she said.
"The situation is difficult and frightening, you can’t leave children in a situation like that," she said. "The children couldn’t bear this situation."
It was a strange reversal in fortunes given that Lebanon is still hosting more than one million Syrian refugees who fled the war in their country beginning in 2011 when an initially peaceful anti-government uprising, met by a brutal government crackdown, spiralled into an ongoing civil war.
Some 775,000 Syrians are registered with the U.N. Refugee Agency in Lebanon, and hundreds of thousands more are believed to be unregistered in the country.
However, for many Lebanese, particularly those living in the eastern Bekaa valley, Syria appeared to be the quickest route to safety as Israeli strikes across a wide swathe of the country killed around 560 people – including some 150 women and children – over two days and wounded more than 1,800 people.
While the war in Syria is ongoing, active fighting has long been frozen in much of the country.
Lebanese citizens, who can cross the border without a visa, regularly visit Damascus, and renting an apartment is significantly cheaper in Syria than in Lebanon.
No official border crossing numbers were immediately available.
The Syrian pro-government Al-Watan newspaper said that by noon on Tuesday, about 2,000 Lebanese citizens had crossed the border, along with some 3,000 Syrian citizens.
AP video shot by Abd al-Rahman
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