(6 Dec 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMARRY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Northern Israel border with Lebanon, Israel – 5 December 2024
1. Destroyed buildings in the Lebanese border town of Odaisseh as seen from Israel, visiting Israelis looking though binoculars
2. Israelis visiting border at lookout over Lebanon and Israel
3. Yehuda Helfer Torah student from Jerusalem, and his cousins and friends pointing and looking at border areas
4. Wide of border area separated by concrete wall, destroyed Lebanese villages of Odaisseh and Kafr Kila on left side, Israel’s farms on right
5. Helfer and others pointing and looking
6. Destroyed buildings in Kafr Kila as seen from Israel
7. Destroyed buildings in Odaisseh (left) and Kafr Kila (right) as seen from Israel
8. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Yehuda Helfer, 27, Torah student from Jerusalem:
“We came from Jerusalem to connect a little with the place here, to feel the destruction, that we ourselves also absorbed from our side, and also to see what the punishment of the bad guys is, what they deserve and they deserve much more than that. We came to see a little, to connect with the place. It is a lookout, it overlooks the border between Israel and Lebanon. We see both the Israeli settlements and the Lebanese settlements here.”
9. Group of visiting Israelis taking photos
10. Destruction in Odaisseh and Kafr Lila
11. Destroyed buildings in Odaisseh
12. Man gesturing at view
13. Destroyed buildings in odaisseh as seen from Israel
14. Visiting Israelis posing for photos
15. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Yehuda Helfer, 27, Torah student from Jerusalem:
“I am impressed by the close proximity of the Israeli settlements (communities) to the Lebanese settlements (communities). How everything is really, really close and there is just a fence separating them in the middle. And to think that enemies are sitting on one side and simply want to murder everyone who sits on the other side of the border. What needs to be done is simply what we are seeing here right now. Simply destroy all the houses that are close to the border, there is no longer any Hezbollah that is close to the border, so they will not be able to get close in any way south of the Litani (river), and beyond that.”
16. Various of smoke billowing in distance after an explosion caused by strike in Southern Lebanon seen from northern Israel
17. Destroyed house in Meiss el Jabal, Lebanon, seen from northern Israel
18. Destroyed buildings in Meiss el Jabal, Lebanon, and collapsed water tank painted with Lebanese flag as seen from northern Israel
STORYLINE:
After a ceasefire between Israeli forces and Hezbollah halted the fighting in the north, Israelis continue to visit the now mostly quiet areas along the border with Lebanon.
Despite occasional exchange of strikes, the ceasefire ended nearly 14 months of heavy combat.
Israel launched its intensified campaign of bombardment in Lebanon in late September, vowing to cripple Hezbollah and stop its barrages into northern Israel after months of more limited cross-border exchanges between the two sides.
Those exchanges started when Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel in solidarity with Hamas after its attack on Oct. 7, 2023.
The southern Lebanese villages of Odaisseh and Kafr Kila now lie largely destroyed just across Israel’s northern border.
Among the visitors, a group of Torah students from Jerusalem watch the destruction from a lookout.
Helfer is surprised how the two communities were so close to each other. He said he didn’t want Hezbollah to return so close to Israeli communities.
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