(6 Jun 2025)
RESTRICTIONS SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon – 6 June 2025
1. Various top shots of destroyed buildings hit by an Israeli strike
2. Wide of destroyed building
3. Various of smoke rising from rubble of building
4. Various of destruction and destroyed building
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ali Harake, local official and engineer:
"We were targeted by the Israeli enemy last night in that area. In Haret Hreik, two buildings were completely destroyed. Israel claimed there was a military facility there, but there is nothing."
6. Various of destroyed buildings
7. Various of people carrying belongings and leaving destroyed building site
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hiba Shahada, Beirut suburb resident:
"We were at home when they sent the warning. We had our children with us. We carried them and went down. What you see here – it looks like just a residential building. This is the Israeli occupation. What did the ceasefire committee do for us? What did the American ceasefire guarantees do for us?"
9. Damaged car and destruction
10. View from inside damaged apartment of destroyed building
STORYLINE:
The Israeli military struck several sites in Beirut’s southern suburbs that it said held underground facilities used by Hezbollah for drone production on Thursday, on the eve of Eid al-Adha.
Several neighborhoods in Dahiyeh were targeted. There was no immediate word on casualties.
The strikes, which hit eight buildings at four locations, marked the first time in more than a month that Israel had struck on the outskirts of Beirut and the fourth time since a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement ended the latest war between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in November.
The Lebanese army condemned Friday Israel’s airstrikes on suburbs of Beiru, saying such attacks are weakening the role of Lebanon’s armed forces that might eventually suspend cooperation with the committee monitoring the truce that ended the Israel-Hezbollah war.
The Lebanese army said it started coordinating with the committee observing the ceasefire after Israel’s military issued its warning and sent patrols to the areas that were to be struck to search them. It added that Israel rejected the suggestion.
Israel has continued to carry out near-daily strikes in southern and eastern Lebanon since then, which Lebanon has said are in violation of the ceasefire deal. Israeli officials say the strikes are intended to prevent Hezbollah from regrouping after a war that took out much of its senior leadership and arsenal.
The Israeli army said in a statement that Hezbollah was "working to produce thousands of drones under the guidance and financing of Iranian terrorist groups."
There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah.
The conflict killed more than 4,000 people in Lebanon, including hundreds of civilians. The Lebanese government said in April that Israeli strikes had killed another 190 people and wounded 485 wounded since the ceasefire.
AP video shot by Fadi Tawil Mahamad Anouti
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