(16 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
Qana, Lebanon – 16 October 2024
1. Wide of destruction site with excavator and rescuers on site
2. Various of rescuers searching through rubble
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Moussa Shaalan, crisis management, civil defense:
"In the early morning hours, specifically from last night, Qana town was targeted. We evacuated some injured individuals to hospitals in Tyre, all while under fire. Last night, we had to pull out of the areas due to the danger, after ensuring there were no more people alive. We have civilians trapped under the rubble, women and young men. We are working on it and hope that in the next few hours, we will complete the search and rescue operation."
4. Various of rescuers searching through rubble
5. Health workers loading a body into ambulance
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Krasht, Mayor:
"In every war, Qana receives its share of devastation. Today, in 2024, the destruction is massive, as evident in Qana’s square. It’s terrifying destruction. Until now, we have missing people trapped under the rubble."
7. Various of rubble
8. Various of rescuers searching through rubble
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammed Krasht, Mayor:
"Most the families that are under the rubble are civilian families. They refused to leave this town to other locations. They were martyred on their land. They are blessed to be martyred. This is our destiny and fate. All the destruction we see today wants to change our identity, but our identity is in our core. We will defend our land, honor, and dignity by staying on this land and continue to persevere here."
10. Various of destructed building, with flames rising in air
STORYLINE:
Israeli strikes have killed at least 15 people in the southern Lebanese town of Qana, which has long been associated with civilian deaths after Israeli strikes during previous conflicts with Hezbollah.
Israel meanwhile struck Beirut’s southern suburbs early Wednesday for the first time in nearly a week.
Israel also carried out a wave of airstrikes on the southern city of Nabatiyeh, targeting what it said were Hezbollah militant sites embedded among civilians, without providing evidence.
"We have civilians trapped under the rubble, women and young men," Moussa Shaalan, crisis management, civil defense said.
"We are working on it and hope that in the next few hours, we will complete the search and rescue operation," he added.
The strikes killed at least five people and destroyed a municipality building, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.
The city’s mayor, Ahmad Kahil, was among the dead, provincial governor Huwaida Turk told The Associated Press.
Earlier this week, Israeli airstrikes destroyed Nabatiyeh’s century-old market area.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the strikes in Qana late Tuesday.
Lebanon’s Civil Defense said 15 bodies had been recovered from the rubble of a building and that rescue efforts were still underway.
In 1996, Israeli artillery shelling on a United Nations compound housing hundreds of displaced people in Qana killed at least 100 civilians and wounded scores more, including four U.N. peacekeepers.
During the 2006 war, an Israeli strike on a residential building killed nearly three dozen people, a third of them children. Israel said at the time that it struck a Hezbollah rocket launcher behind the building.
AP video shot by Mohammed Zaatary
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