STORY: 1 killed, 3 injured in Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon
SHOOTING TIME: July 22, 2024
DATELINE: July 23, 2024
LENGTH: 00:02:52
LOCATION: Beirut
CATEGORY: MILITARY

SHOTLIST:
1. various of the funeral of a Hezbollah militant killed during Israeli airstrikes
2. various of smoke resulting from Israeli shelling on the outskirts of Kfarshouba
3. various of injured people being treated in the hospital
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): AHMAD GHANEM, Resident of Kfarshouba Village

STORYLINE:

A member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party was killed and three others wounded on Monday in an Israeli air strike on the municipality of Chihine in southern Lebanon, Lebanese military sources reported.

The military sources, who spoke anonymously, said that an Israeli warplane fired two air-to-surface missiles at a house in Chihine, southwest of Lebanon, causing casualties and destroying the house.
   
The sources added that Israeli warplanes carried out four air strikes on three towns and villages in the western and eastern sectors, causing material damage.

Ahmad Ghanem, a resident of Kfarshouba village who was injured, described the moment the Israeli shelling hit his house.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic): AHMAD GHANEM, Resident of Kfarshouba Village
"I was having a coffee on the veranda of my house in Kfarshouba with my friend and we heard the sound of shelling and wondered whose house it would hit. But I turned towards the south and I said it was going to hit us and it did. It struck the room next to the veranda."

Tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border escalated on Oct. 8, 2023, following a barrage of rockets launched by the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah toward Israel in solidarity with Hamas' attack on Israel the day before. Israel then retaliated by firing heavy artillery toward southeastern Lebanon. 

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Beirut.
(XHTV)