(15 Nov 2024)
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Beirut, Lebanon – 15 November 2024
1. Wide of destroyed building in Tayouneh area in Beirut, rescue workers and people on site
2. Various of destruction
3. Wide of dust coming of destroyed building
4. Wide of excavator going through rubble
5. Various of destruction
STORYLINE:
An Israeli airstrike on Friday flattened an entire building in a dense neighborhood in the Tayouneh area, a few kilometers (miles) from the center of the Lebanese capital of Beirut.
Rescue workers were seen operating at the site of the strike, as rubble from the destroyed building formed a small hill.
There were no immediate reports of casualties but the bomb hit a lower level of the building, turning much of it to rubble.
The Israeli military had issued a warning ahead of the attack, claiming it was a facility that belonged to Hezbollah.
Such Israeli airstrikes have leveled hundreds of buildings and homes over the past eight weeks destroying thousands of housing units.
The World Bank estimated that Lebanon has been hit by $8.5 billion in physical damages and economic losses from 13 months of Israel-Hezbollah war.
Damages to physical infrastructure alone were valued at $3.4 billion, while economic losses totaled $5.1 billion, the World Bank said in a statement Thursday.
Israel has also been striking deeper inside Lebanon since September as it escalates the war against Hezbollah.
After 13 months of war, more than 3,300 people have been killed in Lebanon and more than 14,400 wounded, Lebanon’s Health Ministry says.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah group began firing into Israel on Oct. 8, 2023, in solidarity with Hamas in Gaza. Since then, the fighting has left some 76 people dead in Israel, including 31 soldiers.
AP video shot by Hassan Ammar
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