STORY: 7 killed in Israeli airstrike on E. Lebanon
SHOOTING TIME: Nov. 6, 2024
DATELINE: Nov. 7, 2024
LENGTH: 00:01:21
LOCATION: Beirut
CATEGORY: POLITICS/MILITARY

SHOTLIST:
1. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): FATIMA HASHISHO, Baalbek citizen
2. various of the damages caused by the Israeli airstrikes on the Bekaa village of Taraya

STORYLINE:

Seven people were killed and two others injured Wednesday morning in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in eastern Lebanon, according to Lebanese Civil Defense and military sources.
   
An anonymous source in the Lebanese Civil Defense told Xinhua that its members, in cooperation with the Lebanese Red Cross, retrieved seven bodies from the rubble of a house in the village of El Ain, adjacent to Lebanon's eastern city of Baalbek.

SOUNDBITE (Arabic): FATIMA HASHISHO, Baalbek citizen
"There is no one here affiliated to Hezbollah and the oldest man here is 19 years old. As you see here, the targeted site, I do not know what they were targeting, except demolition."

Lebanese military sources told Xinhua that Israeli warplanes carried out 21 airstrikes Wednesday morning on 15 towns and villages in southern Lebanon and eight raids on five villages and towns in eastern Lebanon.

Also on Wednesday, Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem said in a televised speech that his group "relies on the battlefield rather than negotiations" to halt the war with Israel, adding that any negotiation would be based on an end to Israel's "aggression" and violation of Lebanon's national sovereignty.
   
"We will remain on the ground until we defeat the enemy," Qassem said.

Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Beirut.
(XHTV)