(7 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Qmatiyeh, Lebanon – 7 October 2024
1. Various of buildings destroyed by strike
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hadi Zahwe, Qmatiyeh resident:
“It was a terrifying sight, it was terrible for these kids. First of all, people were terrified, they are all civilians. And the children, there were body parts of children, these martyred children. This enemy is targeting civilian children and civilian women. There’s nothing here (military positions), you can go around with your camera and see. There are civilians, kids, elderly people, women. The majority of the casualties, whether injured or dead, are from among the elderly, women and children.”
3. Destroyed buildings
4. Man on his balcony checking the damage
5. Various of buildings destroyed by strike
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Nasr Eldin, deputy mayor of Qmatiyeh:
"There’s nothing in Qmatiyeh. There is nothing that they (Israel) are looking for – it’s a safe area. We welcomed around 15,000 internally displaced people. They are our people, they ran away from their villages and came to get protection here. There are no security or military centres here, or anything of this kind."
7. Tilt-down from destroyed building to damaged car
8. Car damaged in the strike
9. Various of destruction and damage from the strike
10. Various of man fixing electricity lines
STORYLINE:
A village in the mountains southeast of Beirut was in shock after an Israeli airstrike demolished a residential building and partly destroyed another, killing seven people, including three children.
Hadi Zahwe, a resident of the area, told reporters that the strike on Sunday was “terrifying.”
"There were body parts of children," he said, before adding "this enemy is targeting civilian children and civilian women."
Israel has carried out a widening aerial bombardment of many parts of southern and eastern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs over the past two weeks, targeting what it said were Hezbollah militants and weapons.
It was not clear what the intended target was in Sunday’s strike, which was the first one to hit the area.
Mahmoud Nasr Eldin, the town’s deputy mayor, said the village contains "no security or military centres."
"There’s nothing in Qmatiyeh. There is nothing that they (Israel) are looking for – it’s a safe area," he said.
"We welcomed around 15,000 internally displaced people. They are our people, they ran away from their villages and came to get protection here," he added.
Israel is now at war with Hamas in Gaza and its ally Hezbollah in Lebanon.
It has also vowed to strike Iran in response to a ballistic missile attack on Israel last week.
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