(25 Sep 2024)
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Kiryat Shmona, Israel – 25 September 2024
1. Various of damaged building
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Maj. Doron Spielman, Israeli army spokesperson: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PART COVERED BY SHOTS 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8++
"The threat from Hezbollah is seven or eight kilometers away which is only maybe five miles away. We can see the mountain range behind me – just beyond that there are Hezbollah terrorists with the rockets firing volleys. Fifty rockets were fired at once into this area, which even the best missile defense system, which Israel has, cannot defeat all of them. You can see behind me: this is the reality of Hezbollah’s threat on Israel. If this was a home, the entire family would’ve been killed, which is why Israel is at war. What we are insisting on, is that Hezbollah abide by international agreements which say they withdraw beyond the Litani River which is about three times this distance, which will enable the residents of Israel to more back into their homes. No one is going to bring their families back into an area where within seconds their entire home can be shattered and blown to pieces."
3. Burned out car
4. Fragments missing from building
5. Wide of white smoke trails of an Iron Dome interception launch
6. Various of gas clouds leftover from midair interceptions of projectiles fired from Lebanon
7. Wide of bus moving down the street
8. Mid of tattered Israeli flag flapping in the wind
STORYLINE:
The Israeli military took journalists on a tour of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel on the border with Lebanon.
Its residents were some of the approximately 60-thousand Israelis evacuated from the border after months of cross-border fighting.
Israeli military spokesperson Major Doron Spielman said the residents would only return if Hezbollah is as far as the Litani River, some 30 kilometers away.
He showed journalists an emergency supplies warehouse blown up Tuesday in a massive barrage of 50 rockets that overwhelmed Israel’s vaunted Iron Dome system with one getting through to strike the warehouse.
Spielman also showed two homes damaged in the early days of the war that remain charred and broken nearly a year after war broke out between the two old foes following Hezbollah’s regional ally Hamas’ attack inside Israel on October 7, 2023.
As thousands of Lebanese flee the airstrikes from the country’s southern and eastern provinces, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that Israel launched three airstrikes over the northeastern city of Hermel, the town of Labweh, and a handful of towns and villages across the country’s southern province.
The Israeli army says it will continue its strikes until it can return the tens of thousands of residents who were displaced from Israel’s north, near its border with Lebanon.
Israel maintains that Hezbollah is launching rocket attacks in and near civilian areas.
While Lebanon’s north has mostly been spared from the strikes, Israel has launched rare strikes near the northern town of Mayrooba and on the outskirts of Qartaba.
Three days of strikes have killed over 615 people, in some of Lebanon’s deadliest days since Israel’s war with Hezbollah in 2006.
AP video by Sam McNeil
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