(18 Nov 2024)
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Beirut, Lebanon – 18 November 2024
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1. Various of strike site and rubble
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hadi al Baik, local resident:
“I was standing here with my friend and suddenly I hear the sound of rocket exploding inside the cafe and my friend and I fly over there to the cafe. There is nothing of Hezbollah inside so they can target it. There is nothing. There are no weapons, there are no kalashnikovs. This is a normal cafe. Everybody comes and sits there. It’s not one or two years-old, it’s been here for 10 years and it is known who is there. The Hussainiye, a place of worship that has been here for 20 years and it has nothing to do with Hezbollah at all.”
3. Wide of Lebanese army and rescue workers
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Ali Chehab, local resident:
“This place has a cafe for the guys and there is a supermarket and there is a barber shop and they give out meals for the displaced. There is nothing else here.”
5. Wide of rescue workers
6. Wide of civil defense truck
7. Various of excavator vehicle clearing rubble
STORYLINE:
An Israeli airstrike slammed into a densely populated residential area in Lebanon’s capital near key government and diplomatic buildings late Monday, killing at least five people as the U.S. pressed ahead with cease-fire efforts.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said two missiles hit the area of Zoqaq al-Blat neighborhood – where local U.N. headquarters and Lebanon’s parliament and prime minister’s office are located.
The strike also injured at least 18 people, according the Lebanese health ministry.
A reporter with The Associated Press at the scene described significant casualties on the street. The target of the airstrike remains unclear, and the Israeli army did not issue a prior warning.
Many areas in central Beirut, including Zoqaq al-Blat, became a refuge for many displaced by the ongoing conflict in southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut.
The strike also occurred near a Hussainiye, a Shia mosque.
This is the second consecutive day of Israeli strikes on central Beirut after more than a month-long pause.
On Sunday, two strikes hit the capital, one of which killed Hezbollah’s chief spokesperson and four other members.
Minutes after the strike, Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said in a post on X, “All countries and decision-makers are required to end the bloody and destructive Israeli aggression on Lebanon and implement international resolutions, most notably Resolution 1701.”
UN Security Council Resolution 1701, adopted in 2006, was intended to create a stable, demilitarized buffer zone in southern Lebanon and end hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah. However, the resolution’s full implementation has faced challenges from both sides.
Resolution 1701 is again on the table as part of a an American proposal for a cease-fire deal, aiming to end 13 months of exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah.
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