(28 Nov 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hanouiyeh, southern Lebanon – 28 November 2024
1. Various of destroyed house
2. Various of Mariam Kourani’s holding her grandaughter’s toy car
3. Kourani seated amid rubble
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mariam Kourani, displaced from Hanouiyeh:
“At 2 o’clock, the shelling in the area intensified significantly. We decided to go down for a while to the courtyard where some of our relatives were. When we arrived, they told us to evacuate. Our safety was truly a blessing from God. We have a small girl with us, along with me, my son-in-law, my husband, my daughter, and my granddaughter. The house was destroyed, so we continued our way to the mountain. Now, we’ve come back to see what happened."
5. Kourani’s standing with her husband on rubble of destroyed house
6. Various of destroyed house and crushed car
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mariam Kourani displaced from Hanouiyeh:
"We left our home broken-hearted, but when you see the enemy showing no mercy to young or old, committing massacres, you say, ‘Praise be to God that it was just the house destroyed.’ We consider it a relief from greater harm. The land has been watered with the blood of martyrs. We feel ashamed to talk about losing bricks and stones when so many of our loved ones, neighbors, and youth have sacrificed their lives."
8. Destroyed house
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mariam Kourani displaced from Hanouiyeh:
"The resistance will secure housing for those who have lost their homes. And the municipality here, not just the municipality of Hanouiyeh but in all the villages, will provide housing for those who lost their homes."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Qana, Lebanon – 28 November 2024
10. Various aerials of destruction ++MUTE++
11. Residents looking at destruction ++MUTE++
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abu Ahmad Salameh displaced from Qana village:
"There’s a lump in the heart—this destruction leaves a deep ache. So many memories and so much more tied to it. My parents’ house, my daughter’s house, my grandfather’s house, our home—I spent my entire life among them all. But, praise be to God, what is destroyed can be rebuilt."
13. Tracking shot of destroyed buildings on street
STORYLINE:
Since Mariam Kourani got married 37 years ago, she worked with her husband at his butchery shop and then started an in-house business selling serving containers before they opened a small restaurant.
An Israeli airstrike in late September destroyed everything they had built over the decades.
Walking through the rubble of what used to be her house and restaurant in this southern village, Kourani, 56, looked in pain as her son-in-law searched through the damage to pick up some clothes and toys belonging to his daughter, Yara Srour.
She pointed to a ceiling fan that was still dangling despite the fact that the roof had collapsed.
Kourani said she had been contacted by Hezbollah members who promised her that all those who lost a house during the war will be given a place to stay until their homes are reconstructed.
After spending thousands of dollars during two months of displacement in the village of Qarnayel in Mount Lebanon, Kourani said her priority now is to fix their butchery across the street from their house to resume work.
After the Israel-Hezbollah conflict stopped when the U.S.-mediated ceasefire went into effect early Wednesday morning, many Lebanese started going to their hometowns.
The damage in the sector amounts to $3.2 billion in damage and losses, the World Bank said.
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