AP Archive | Israeli airstrike creates crater blocking highway at key crossing between Lebanon and Syria @APArchive | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
(4 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Masnaa, Lebanon - 4 October 2024
1. Pan of crater, with people crossing while carrying their bags
2. Pan from a van to debris
3. People carrying their belongings and walking
4. Various of people walking on the edge of the crater, crossing destroyed road
5. Wide of debris
6. People crossing with luggage
STORYLINE:
Israel carried out a series of massive airstrikes overnight in southern suburbs of Beirut and another that cut off the main border crossing between Lebanon and Syria.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said an Israeli airstrike led to the closure of the road near the busy Masnaa Border Crossing, from which tens of thousands of people fleeing war in Lebanon have crossed into Syria over the past two weeks.
Associated Press video footage showed that the strikes left two huge craters on each side of the road.
People carrying bags were seen crossing on foot after being dropped off by cars that were unable to pass the site of the airstrike.
The airstrike that cut the busiest border crossing between the two countries came a day after an Israeli military spokesperson said Hezbollah has been trying to transport military equipment through the border crossing.
Dama Post, a pro-government Syrian media outlet, said Israeli warplanes fired two missiles, damaging the road between the Masnaa crossing in Lebanon and the Syrian crossing point of Jdeidet Yabous.
It was the first time this major border crossing has been cut since the beginning of the war.
Lebanese General Security recorded 256,614 Syrian citizens and 82,264 Lebanese citizens crossing into Syrian territory between Sept. 23 — when the Israel launched a heavy bombardment of southern and eastern Lebanon — and Sept. 30.
There are half a dozen border crossings between the two countries and most of them remain open.
Lebanon’s minister of public works said all border crossings between Lebanon and Syria work under the supervision of the state.
The new wave of strikes came after Israel warned people to evacuate communities in southern Lebanon that are outside a United Nations-declared buffer zone, as the yearlong conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah escalates.
Israel launched a ground incursion into Lebanon on Tuesday and its forces have been clashing with Hezbollah militants in a narrow strip along the border.
A series of attacks before the incursion killed some of the group's key members, including longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah.
AP video shot by Hassan Jarah
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(4 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Masnaa, Lebanon - 4 October 2024
1. Pan of crater, with people crossing while carrying their bags
2. Pan from a van to debris
3. People carrying their belongings and walking
4. Various of people walking on the edge of the crater, crossing destroyed road
5. Wide of debris
6. People crossing with luggage
STORYLINE:
Israel carried out a series of massive airstrikes overnight in southern suburbs of Beirut and another that cut off the main border crossing between Lebanon and Syria.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said an Israeli airstrike led to the closure of the road near the busy Masnaa Border Crossing, from which tens of thousands of people fleeing war in Lebanon have crossed into Syria over the past two weeks.
Associated Press video footage showed that the strikes left two huge craters on each side of the road.
People carrying bags were seen crossing on foot after being dropped off by cars that were unable to pass the site of the airstrike.
The airstrike that cut the busiest border crossing between the two countries came a day after an Israeli military spokesperson said Hezbollah has been trying to transport military equipment through the border crossing.
Dama Post, a pro-government Syrian media outlet, said Israeli warplanes fired two missiles, damaging the road between the Masnaa crossing in Lebanon and the Syrian crossing point of Jdeidet Yabous.
It was the first time this major border crossing has been cut since the beginning of the war.
Lebanese General Security recorded 256,614 Syrian citizens and 82,264 Lebanese citizens crossing into Syrian territory between Sept. 23 — when the Israel launched a heavy bombardment of southern and eastern Lebanon — and Sept. 30.
There are half a dozen border crossings between the two countries and most of them remain open.
Lebanon’s minister of public works said all border crossings between Lebanon and Syria work under the supervision of the state.
The new wave of strikes came after Israel warned people to evacuate communities in southern Lebanon that are outside a United Nations-declared buffer zone, as the yearlong conflict between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah escalates.
Israel launched a ground incursion into Lebanon on Tuesday and its forces have been clashing with Hezbollah militants in a narrow strip along the border.
A series of attacks before the incursion killed some of the group's key members, including longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah.
AP video shot by Hassan Jarah
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