(30 Oct 2024)
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Sidon, Lebanon – 30 October 2024
1. Various of excavator loading rubble onto a truck
2. Excavator clearing rubble at destroyed building site
3. Destroyed houses and damaged buildings
4. Men clearing rubble in a heavily damaged flat seen through destroyed wall
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdullah Habli, Sidon resident: ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
“Sidon is a safe city, thank God. There is nothing happening here except a massacre against civilians. Even this building they bombed had no one in it. It housed poor, struggling people, and this street is an ordinary residential street with ordinary, civilian residents. There are no camps, no weapons, nothing here. Sidon has always been safe, and Haret Sidon has always been a safe haven, protecting civilians and the displaced."
6. Various of destroyed buildings
7. Close of shattered glass on the ground
8. Sidon’s seaside
9. Men fishing on Sidon’s beach
10. People walking on Sidon’s waterfront road
11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mahmoud Al Ghoul, displaced from Meiss El Jabal:
“I am a displaced person, and I haven’t seen anything military here at all. So, anything that happens to Sidon is something we cannot accept. Yesterday, as you saw, there were two strikes near Sidon. This is something we cannot accept at all."
12. Various of street, Al Ghoul walking
13. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali Al-Amin, displaced from Tyre:
“Israel makes no distinction between Sidon, Beirut, or Nabatieh. It only wants to destroy, hurt, and inflict as much harm as it can. It (Israel) always has an excuse, claiming there are Hezbollah fighters or weapons in the area; it always brings up this topic. But many of the areas it strikes have no Hezbollah, no Amal movement, or any other party."
14. Traffic on the road
15. Sidon castle
STORYLINE:
Residents in Lebanon’s city of Sidon on Wednesday decried Israeli airstrikes a day earlier which killed six people and wounded 37 according to local health officials.
Excavators sifted through the debris, loading trucks with remnants of destroyed homes.
Residents cleared shattered glass and plaster from gaping walls.
The airstrikes hit two residential buildings opposite Sayyed Shohada, a Hezbollah-linked complex.
Local resident Abdullah Habli called the attack “a massacre against civilians.”
"This building they bombed had no one in it. It housed poor, struggling people, and this street is an ordinary residential street with ordinary, civilian residents," Habli added.
Before the strikes, Israel had warned 16 southern villages to evacuate north of the Awwali River — but Sidon received no such warning.
“I haven’t seen anything military here at all," said Mahmoud Al Ghoul, displaced from Mays al Jabal in the Marjeyoun province.
"(Israel) always has an excuse, claiming there are Hezbollah fighters or weapons in the area; it always brings up this topic. But many of the areas it strikes have no Hezbollah, no Amal movement, or any other party," said Ali Al-Amin, who had been displaced from Tyre, another Lebanese city.
AP video by Fadi Tawil and Mahmad Aounti
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