Mechanical excavator clears rubble after Israeli strikes in Beirut's southern suburbs

Описание: (10 Mar 2026)
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Beirut - 10 March 2026
1. Various of excavator clearing debris and destruction
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hachem Fadlallah, excavator driver:
“Yesterday, an Israeli airstrike hit the Sfeir area in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The strike targeted a building belonging to the al-Qard Al-Hasan Association twice. The damage is very serious."
3. Various of smoke rising from destroyed buildings hit by Israel strikes
4. Tilt up from street to a damaged building
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hachem Fadlallah, excavator driver:
“We are now working to opening the roads so that people can retrieve their belongings from the buildings. We reaffirm our commitment to our pledge: we will not leave the southern suburbs (Dahiyeh), and we will not allow them to be closed off.'"
6. Smoke rising from the rubble
7. Tracking shot of a severely damaged street building
STORYLINE:
Excavators cleared debris from the site of an Israeli airstrike that hit the Sfeir area in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Tuesday.

It destroyed dozens of buildings and caused fires in the area.

“The strike targeted a building belonging to the al-Qard Al-Hasan Association twice. The damage is very serious,” excavator driver Hachem Fadlallah told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

It comes as the Israeli military said on Monday it was targeting Hezbollah’s financial arm, al-Qard Al-Hasan, as its ground forces in Lebanon's south launched “focused raids” against what it called the group’s infrastructure.

Residents of Beirut’s southern suburb, widely known as Dahiyeh, were ordered to evacuate before Israel launched strikes.

Smoke billowed over Beirut after the attacks.

The first strike destroyed a building housing an office of al-Qard al-Hasan in the southern suburb of Chiyah.

A Lebanese journalist on site told The Associated Press he was wounded in the leg and taken to a nearby hospital. The strikes on Chiyah were followed by more airstrikes on nearby areas, forcing Lebanese troops to close roads where al-Qard al-Hasan branches are located to ensure people's safety.

Israel says Hezbollah uses al-Qard al-Hasan to finance its military activities and targeted several of the group's branches in southern and eastern Lebanon last week.

The latest round of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah began on March. 2 when the group fired rockets and drones on northern Israel following the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei two days earlier in a joint U.S.-Israeli strike.

Israel retaliated with large waves of airstrikes and Israeli troops captured several new posts in southern Lebanon.

At least 486 people have been killed in Lebanon, with more than 1,300 people wounded and over 600,000 people displaced.

AP video by Fadi Tawil and Mahammad Aounti

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