(11 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon – 11 October, 2024
1. Destroyed buildings at strike site
2. Various of rescue workers and diggers clearing debris
3. Destroyed buildings
4. Various of people, debris, heavy machinery
5. Destroyed building
6. Hezbollah legislator Amin Shiri, rubble
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Amin Shiri, Hezbollah legislator:
"First of all, we can confirm that there were no Hezbollah members in a leadership position (at the strike site), whether in Nuwayri, Burj Abi Haidar, or Basta al fawaa, or in Ras Al Nabe. The Israeli enemy targeted civilians."
8. Various of people, debris
STORYLINE:
In Beirut’s Bourj Abou Haidar neighborhood, civil defense members and municipal workers dug through the rubble of the three-story building that was knocked down by the Thursday night strike.
Israeli airstrikes on central Beirut on Thursday left two neighborhoods smouldering, killed 22 people and wounded some 117 others, Lebanon’s health ministry said, as well as further escalating Israel’s bloody conflict with Iran-backed Hezbollah militants in Lebanon.
The air raid on central Beirut — the deadliest in over a year of war — apparently targeted two residential buildings in separate neighborhoods simultaneously, according to an AP photographer at the scene.
It brought down one apartment building and wiped out the lower floors of the other.
Hezbollah legislator Amin Shiri said that there were no Hezbollah officials at the two sites struck Thursday night in Beirut.
"First of all, we can confirm that there were no Hezbollah members, in a leadership position (at the strike site)," he said on a visit to the strike site.
Civil defense official Walid Hashash said they don’t expect more bodies under the rubble as no people are missing. He added that once operations are over they will issue a final death toll.
The Israeli military said it was looking into the reported strikes. Israeli airstrikes have been far more common in Beirut’s tightly packed southern suburbs, where Hezbollah bases many of its operations.
After the strikes, Hezbollah’s Al Manar TV reported that an attempt to kill Wafiq Safa, a top security official with the group, had failed. It said that Safa had not been inside of either of the targeted buildings.
AP video shot by Ali Sharafeddine
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