(29 May 2024)
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RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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Aita al-Shaab, Lebanon - 27 May 2024
1. Pan of destruction
2. Close of destroyed vehicle and building
3. Mid of damaged store front
4. Various of destruction
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Zainab Tahini, local resident: ++PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 3 AND 4++
"This is my house, and this is also my house, and that is my family’s house. They are all destroyed. Our neighbors' houses are also all destroyed. This is our house but we are not sad about it. God will give us our homes back. The most important thing is we are okay, the young people are okay. God bless the resistance."
6. Various of people packing their cars
7. Poster of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah underneath a religious banner
STORYLINE:
Driving through Aita al-Shaab, shops and homes have been flattened, with a trickle of people walking amidst the destruction to collect their belongings.
This small village is one of the hardest hit areas by Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon.
The country has been in the throes of violence since the start of the Israel-Hamas war.
The Lebanese Hezbollah group and Israel have been exchanging fire since then.
Israel considers the Iran-backed Shiite militant group its most serious immediate threat, estimating that Hezbollah has around 150,000 rockets and missiles aimed at Israel.
Hezbollah and Israel fought a month-long war in 2006 that ended in a tense stalemate.
Aita al-Shaab was one of the villages that was destroyed and rebuilt after that conflict.
But much of that reconstruction has now been flattened.
Most of the village is now empty, with only a few people lingering within their homes.
Day by day, more people leave. But many come back from time to time to check on their homes.
AP video shot by: Mohammad Zanaty
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