(21 Oct 2024)
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Beirut – 21 October 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. AUDIO Loud bang, pan right to smoke rising from Israeli strike
2. Wide of smoke rising from another location
3. Wide of skyline with some smoke, tracer fire
STORYLINE:
Israel’s air force carried out several strikes on the suburbs of Beirut on Monday night, following an Israeli army warning to evacuate the area.
Israel said late on Monday it planned to carry out more strikes in Lebanon against a Hezbollah-run financial institution that it targeted the night before and which it says uses customers’ deposits to finance attacks against Israel.
At least 15 branches of Al-Qard Al-Hassan were hit late Sunday in the southern neighborhoods of Beirut, across southern Lebanon and in the eastern Bekaa Valley, where Hezbollah has a strong presence. One strike flattened a nine-story building in Beirut with a branch inside it.
The Israeli military issued evacuation warnings ahead of the strikes, and there were no reports of casualties.
Israeli ground forces invaded Lebanon earlier this month. The military said it aims to push Hezbollah out of southern Lebanon so that Israelis can return to their homes nearby after more than a year of cross-border rocket and drone attacks. Israeli airstrikes have pounded large areas of Lebanon for weeks, forcing over a million people to flee their homes.
Hezbollah has been launching rockets into Israel nearly every day since Hamas’ deadly raid into Israel last year that sparked the war in Gaza.
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