(1 Oct 2024)
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Baalbek, Lebanon – 1 October 2024
1. Various of destruction
2. Children playing on rubble
3. Man walks beside destroyed building
4. Rubble
5. Various of hospital
6. Various of injured woman Eman Assaf
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Eman Assaf, injured in Israeli strike on her home in Bodai:
"My house is 4 floors. There are no fighters in my home. My husband is not a fighter, nothing. We are family that keeps to itself living in this village and suddenly there was a rocket. It destroyed us. We came out from under the rubble, thank God. We came out alive. Despite these injuries and what happened, they are targeting everyone, they are not differentiating between the homes of fighters and those of non fighters.”
8. Various of injured, including Mariam Assaf
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mariam Assaf, injured in Israeli strike on her home in Bodai:
"We were sitting at the house and the rocket came towards us and we went out. We have nothing, thank god for everything."
10. Various of rubble
STORYLINE:
Dotted throughout neighborhoods in the town of Baalbek are flattened homes from the intense Israeli airstrikes.
In one day alone, 16 people were killed and more than 40 were injured in this province.
Eman Assaf survived a strike that destroyed her home in the town of Bodai.
"There are no fighters in my home. My husband is not a fighter, nothing. We are a family that keeps to itself living in this village and suddenly there was a rocket," she says from her hospital bed.
"They are not differentiating between the homes of fighters and those of non fighters," she adds.
Her daughter, Mariam Assaf, is also in the hospital with severe injuries and is barely able to lift her head.
"We were sitting at the house and the rocket came towards us and we went out. We have nothing," she says.
The Israeli army has been carrying out secretive ground operations to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure in Lebanese villages close to the border for the past year, military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said Tuesday.
Hagari said that the current ground maneuvers in Lebanon are an expansion of the previous year’s operations.
He said that troops destroyed more than 700 Hezbollah sites, including tunnels carved deep into the hillside.
They included separate rooms for storing weapons and what seemed to be bedrooms outfitted with mattresses.
Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire across the Lebanon border almost daily since Oct. 8, the day after Hamas sent fighters into Israel and sparked the war in Gaza.
It’s been almost a year since about 250 people were abducted from Israel, and friends and family are worried about their loved ones as attention turns away from hostages and north toward Lebanon.
AP video shot by Suleiman Amhaz
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