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(3 Oct 2024)
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Bogota, Colombia - 03 October, 2024
1. Various of Colombians getting off the plane
2. Islam el Hamed Mourad getting off plane
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Islam el Hamed Mourad, Colombian who left Lebanon:
"All around us, in front of our eyes - bombs, total destruction. Cars blown up. A terrible situation. A war in every sense of the word. No mercy. And they killed many people. Many children. In less than seven days there were more than 3000 dead, which is an extremely large number. Children, teenagers, old people, pregnant women. An unforgivable damage."
4. Colombians gathered in front of plane
5. Pilot hanging Colombian flag out of window
6. Various of Colombians gathered in front of plane
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Gilberto Murillo, Colombian Chancellor:
"A plan was made for a flight to repatriate about 117 nationals, 50 of them children, adolescents, the vast majority of them women, elderly people and some with their pets. And it was a very complex operation."
8. Colombians getting off plane
9. Various of people gathered in front of plane
STORYLINE:
More than 100 Colombians returned to the country on Thursday on the first humanitarian flight arranged by the government for those who asked to be repatriated from Lebanon.
Attacks have intensified in Lebanese territory due to the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
"All around us, in front of our eyes—bombs, total destruction. Cars blown up. A terrible situation. A war in every sense of the word," said Islam el Hamed Mourad, a Colombian woman married to a Lebanese man, after she got off the flight.
Mourad, who had been living in Lebanon for eight years, asked Colombia to continue humanitarian flights to safeguard other Colombians still in Beirut.
Since Israel killed Hezbollah's leader in Lebanon on Saturday, there has been a major escalation of the conflict that includes Iranian missile launches and an Israeli ground incursion into Lebanon.
The Colombian government released a statement on Wednesday in which it expressed its "condemnation of the attacks by the parties to the conflict in the Middle East, especially those carried out by Israel and Iran."
According to the Colombian foreign minister, they hope to operate a second humanitarian flight to return about 200 more Colombians "when conditions permit."
AP Video shot by Marko Alvarez
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(3 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bogota, Colombia - 03 October, 2024
1. Various of Colombians getting off the plane
2. Islam el Hamed Mourad getting off plane
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Islam el Hamed Mourad, Colombian who left Lebanon:
"All around us, in front of our eyes - bombs, total destruction. Cars blown up. A terrible situation. A war in every sense of the word. No mercy. And they killed many people. Many children. In less than seven days there were more than 3000 dead, which is an extremely large number. Children, teenagers, old people, pregnant women. An unforgivable damage."
4. Colombians gathered in front of plane
5. Pilot hanging Colombian flag out of window
6. Various of Colombians gathered in front of plane
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Gilberto Murillo, Colombian Chancellor:
"A plan was made for a flight to repatriate about 117 nationals, 50 of them children, adolescents, the vast majority of them women, elderly people and some with their pets. And it was a very complex operation."
8. Colombians getting off plane
9. Various of people gathered in front of plane
STORYLINE:
More than 100 Colombians returned to the country on Thursday on the first humanitarian flight arranged by the government for those who asked to be repatriated from Lebanon.
Attacks have intensified in Lebanese territory due to the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
"All around us, in front of our eyes—bombs, total destruction. Cars blown up. A terrible situation. A war in every sense of the word," said Islam el Hamed Mourad, a Colombian woman married to a Lebanese man, after she got off the flight.
Mourad, who had been living in Lebanon for eight years, asked Colombia to continue humanitarian flights to safeguard other Colombians still in Beirut.
Since Israel killed Hezbollah's leader in Lebanon on Saturday, there has been a major escalation of the conflict that includes Iranian missile launches and an Israeli ground incursion into Lebanon.
The Colombian government released a statement on Wednesday in which it expressed its "condemnation of the attacks by the parties to the conflict in the Middle East, especially those carried out by Israel and Iran."
According to the Colombian foreign minister, they hope to operate a second humanitarian flight to return about 200 more Colombians "when conditions permit."
AP Video shot by Marko Alvarez
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