(9 Oct 2024)
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Beirut, Lebanon – 9 October 2024
1. Various of exterior of Makassed high school for girls in Bashoura neighborhood in Beirut, which is serving as a center for displaced persons from south Lebanon, the Bekaa and the southern suburbs of Beirut
2. Various of a Hezbollah members of the parliament, Amin Sherri, Ali al-Moqdad and Raed Berro touring the school and checking on the displaced persons inside the school
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amin Sherri, member of parliament with the Hezbollah Party:
"As resistance fighters on the frontlines and as the leadership of Hezbollah, we will not beg the Israeli enemy nor the international community for a ceasefire. The question should be the opposite; the aggressor is the one the international community should be pressuring to stop the ceasefire, or more specifically, the aggression."
4. Various of displaced persons listening to Sherri
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amin Sherri, member of parliament with the Hezbollah Party:
"There is no ‘new Middle East’ with the presence of the resistance in Lebanon."
6. Various of displaced families sitting in the Makassed school in Bashoura
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mustafa Hmadeh, displaced Lebanese from the south:
"We have been in this crisis since 1975. I was 4 years old. We’ve been displaced and have faced destruction, but we will return to rebuild. We will return because this is our land. We will not give it up. We will return."
8. Various of displaced families in the displacement center of the Makassed school
STORYLINE:
Two Lebanese lawmakers with the Hezbollah Party visited a school-turned-shelter for displaced people in Bashoura neighborhood of Beirut on Wednesday.
Parliament members Amin Sherri and Ali Moqdad went to the Makassed high school for girls, which is housing about two dozen Lebanese families displaced by the ongoing Israeli airstrikes, including from the country’s south, the Bekaa Valley and Beirut’s southern suburbs.
A week before, an Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building in the same neighborhood, in Lebanese capital’s city center, the second time Israel has struck central Beirut.
At least six people were killed and seven were wounded in the strike on the the residential Bashoura district.
Israel expanded its bombardment in Lebanon since Sept. 23.
At least 1,400 Lebanese, including civilians, medics and Hezbollah fighters, have been killed and 1.2 million driven from their homes in less than two weeks.
Some 1,000 centers — including educational complexes, vocational institutes, universities, and other institutions — are currently sheltering 185,400 people displaced by the Israeli offensive in Lebanon, according to Lebanon’s crisis response unit.
Fifty percent of those displaced are housed in facilities concentrated in Beirut and Mount Lebanon.
Israel says it aims to drive the militant group away from shared borders so displaced Israelis can return to their homes.
Last week, Israel launched what it called a limited ground operation into southern Lebanon after a series of attacks killed longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and others.
The fighting is the worst since Israel and Hezbollah fought a brief war in 2006.
AP video shot by Ali Sharafeddine
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