(12 Nov 2024)
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Ain Yaaqoub, Lebanon – 11 November 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of emergency and rescue workers looking for people under rubble, destruction
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hisham Hussein Hisham, owner of building:
“Thank God, thank God, until now all I know who are alive are my uncle and my cousin. I did not rent the house and I’m not benefiting financially and I’m not affiliated with any party (political party or Hezbollah) and they are not affiliated to any party.”
3. Various of scene, emergency workers
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mustafa Yacoub, neighbour:
“It is miserable, miserable. Everyone is so shocked, this is the first time they hit Akkar, there were no warnings. They didn’t give any evacuation orders to the building. 30 people in one building and the building fell on them. There are dead and injured and shreds of body parts everywhere.”
5. Various of destruction, emergency workers and excavator on scene
STORYLINE:
An Israeli airstrike destroyed a home in northern Lebanon on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding 14 others, the Health Ministry said.
Rescue teams scrambled to pull survivors from under the rubble, Lebanon’s state media said, and video widely circulated on social media showed the Lebanese Red Cross moving corpses encased in body bags.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strike and the target was not clear.
The strike hit the village of Ain Yaaqoub in the northern Akkar region, which is home to Greek Orthodox and Sunni Muslim communities and is far from the Hezbollah militant group’s main areas of influence in the south and east.
Israel has struck deeper into Lebanon since its military escalation and ground invasion against Hezbollah in late September.
Israel’s first strike in the Akkar region was on Nov. 2 and targeted a bridge near a Lebanese army checkpoint, cutting a key road leading to Syria.
On Monday, another Israeli airstrike hit a residential building in southern Lebanon, killing seven people and wounding seven others, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.
Israel’s military said 190 rockets were fired from Lebanon on Monday, with rescue services saying at least five people were injured.
AP video shot by Yahya Al Habashty
Production by Fay Abuelgasim
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