(1 Apr 2025)
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Beirut – 1 April 2025
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Various of workers and machines removing rubble
2. Wide of damaged building
3. Various of cars damaged by the blast and rubble
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hussein Nour El-Din, eyewitness:
"It’s just another brutal assault by the Israelis, as they usually do. They are violating international agreements. It’s a strike as all the Lebanese territory is free game to them. We were at home. You know it’s Eid al-Fitr, people have finished their work and have time off. The brutal strike took place. We didn’t know where it happened. But once the smoke faded it appeared it was the building directly facing us.”
5. Close of rubble
6. Machine working
7. Ambulance at the scene
STORYLINE:
The Israeli military struck a building in Beirut’s southern suburbs early Tuesday, killing at least three people, as it said it targeted a member of the Hezbollah militant group.
The airstrike came without warning days after Israel launched an attack on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, on Friday for the first time since a ceasefire ended fighting between Israeli forces and the Hezbollah militant group in November.
The Israeli military then had warned residents in the crowded suburbs before the attack after two projectiles were launched from southern Lebanon, which Hezbollah denied firing.
At least seven other people were wounded in Tuesday’s airstrike, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
The Israeli military said in a statement the latest strike targeted a Hezbollah member who had been helping the Palestinian Hamas group in the Gaza Strip in attacks against Israel.
It said the airstrike was “under the direction of the Shin Bet,” Israel’s domestic intelligence agency.
Hezbollah did not comment on the strike.
The top three floors of an apartment building were damaged following the strike.
AP video by Fadi Tawil
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