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Flattened buildings and drones overhead in Dahieh

Hugo Bachega
Middle East correspondent, in Dahieh, Beirut

Damage in Beirut


We are in Beirut’s southern suburbs known as Dahieh, the Hezbollah base in the capital, as part of a media tour organised by the group.

Hezbollah organised the tour to show what the group described as "some of the barbaric Israeli attacks on residential buildings and media institutions".

It was a rare chance to visit some of the sites hit in this intense campaign of Israeli airstrikes. One of the locations we were taken to was the building belonging to Sirat TV, hit on Monday.

It was flattened, and nearby buildings were severely damaged, an indication of the power of the attack.

There was still smoke billowing from the rubble and a heavy smell in the air. As we visited we could hear the sound of drones flying overhead.

There were several posters with the face of the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, killed in an Israeli airstrike in Dahieh last week, and a banner saying: "None of our banners shall fall".

The second location was a residential building hit yesterday, also flattened.

Israel has accused the group of embedding its facilities, including weapons storage sites, in residential areas, and of using the civilian population as human shields, something Hezbollah has denied.
 
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