(5 Oct 2024)
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Masnaa Border Crossing, Lebanon - 05 October 2024
1. People carrying bags crossing crater caused by Israeli strikes on Lebanese-Syrian border
2. Tilt up of people crossing
3. Various of people carrying bags crossing
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Issa Hilal, Syrian refugee from Manbij in Aleppo countryside:
“I came from Nabatiyeh, the roads were congested, we spent two days on the road. It was hard without water, and it was very expensive. It was very hard to reach here, but we thank God.”
5. Crater with people crossing
6. People crossing
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ibrahim Nasreddine, Lebanese returning to Lebanon from Syria:
“I am returning to check my house, also to see our people who are still there (in Lebanon). As you see, roads are being cut off, and you cannot see your loved ones or know what happened to them. I am forced to go back and see our people who are still there.”
8. Sick man being helped to cross the crater
9. Cars and buses on the Syrian side
10. Various of people carrying bags crossing
STORYLINE:
Thousands of people have continued to cross on foot through the main Masnaa Border Crossing from Lebanon into Syria even after Israeli airstrikes cut off the road leading up to it.
The Associated Press journalists on Saturday saw a nonstop stream of people walking through a large crater created by the airstrike to buses waiting on the other side.
Nearly 375,000 people have crossed from Lebanon into Syria, fleeing Israeli bombardment, in less than two weeks, Lebanese officials said.
The government's crisis management unit, citing figures from Lebanese General Security, said 374,621 people — Lebanese citizens and Syrians living in Lebanon — have crossed into Syria since Sept. 23, when Israel intensified its air bombardment campaign in Lebanon.
Israel began a ground incursion Tuesday into Lebanon against the Hezbollah militant group. The Israeli military said nine soldiers have died in the conflict in southern Lebanon.
Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire across the Lebanon border almost daily since the day after Hamas’ cross-border attack on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 Israelis and took 250 others hostage. Israel declared war on the Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip in response. As the Israel-Hamas war reaches the one-year mark, more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory, and just over half the dead have been women and children, according to local health officials.
Nearly 2,000 people have been killed in Lebanon since then, most of them since Sept. 23, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
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