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(30 Jul 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon - 30 July 2024
1. Various of arrival area at Beirut Rafic Hariri Airport
2.Various of Hadi Sharqawi greeting family
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hadi Sharqawi, Lebanese student travelling from Italy: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT++
"As for the threats, they didn’t affect my decision to come to Lebanon at all. And even if there are threats we will still come to Lebanon, and especially the south."
4. Wide of departure area
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Mokhalid, coming to pick up daughter: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT; PARTLY COVERED WITH SHOT 6++
"We are not scared by the situation because we are used to this. When there are airstrikes we hear them regularly. And the breaking of sound barrier (by Israeli jets) doesn’t affect us because the sons of the south (the Lebanese from the south) are used to these things. We have no fear of anything."
6. Mid of passengers looking at departures screens
7. Close of screen showing cancelled and delayed flights
STORYLINE:
A handful of flights to and from Beirut's international airport were cancelled this week as tensions between Israel and Hezbollah escalate, with several carriers citing safety and security risks.
Summer air traffic continues as Lebanese expats greet their loved ones coming to spend the summer in Lebanon as they usually do.
For many, the imminent threat of war is something they are used to, says 71-year-old Mohammad Mokhalid.
He came from the southern Lebanese village of Jarjoug to pick his daughter and grandchildren from Beirut's Rafic Hariri Airport.
"We are not scared by the situation because we are used to this. When there are airstrikes, we hear them regularly," Mokhalid said.
Lebanon is expecting a retaliatory strike from Israel after a missile hit a soccer field in the town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-annexed Syrian Golan Heights over the weekend, killing 12 children and adolescents.
Israel accused the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah of carrying out the strike, to which Hezbollah issued a rare denial.
The incident has heightened fears that the nearly 10-months of low-boiling conflict between Hezbollah and Israeli forces in the border region could escalate into an all-out war, kicking off a flurry of diplomatic efforts to keep the situation under control.
Some European airlines have canceled flights in light of the increased tensions.
Frankfurt-based Lufthansa Group said Monday that three of its airlines — Lufthansa, Swiss and Eurowings — decided to suspend flights to and from Beirut "up to and including" August 5.
Air France also suspended some of its flights, while other airlines changed their flight schedules.
Lebanon's Middle East Airlines delayed some flights to arrive Tuesday morning instead of at night the carrier said, "due to technical reasons related to the distribution of insurance risks."
MEA chief Mohamad El-Hout, however, downplayed fears following a meeting with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, the state-run National News Agency said Hout had "denied that Rafik Hariri Airport had received any threats or information from any source that the airport would be attacked."
He pointed out Lufthansa Group had also canceled flights to Lebanon in the early months of the war in Gaza and border conflict in Lebanon.
For student Hadi Sharqawi, the news of cancellations and flights did not deter him from coming to Lebanon to see his family.
A student in Italy, Sharqawi was en route for two days and he navigated cancellations and transfers.
AP video shot by Fay Abuelgasim
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon - 30 July 2024
1. Various of arrival area at Beirut Rafic Hariri Airport
2.Various of Hadi Sharqawi greeting family
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hadi Sharqawi, Lebanese student travelling from Italy: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT++
"As for the threats, they didn’t affect my decision to come to Lebanon at all. And even if there are threats we will still come to Lebanon, and especially the south."
4. Wide of departure area
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mohammad Mokhalid, coming to pick up daughter: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT; PARTLY COVERED WITH SHOT 6++
"We are not scared by the situation because we are used to this. When there are airstrikes we hear them regularly. And the breaking of sound barrier (by Israeli jets) doesn’t affect us because the sons of the south (the Lebanese from the south) are used to these things. We have no fear of anything."
6. Mid of passengers looking at departures screens
7. Close of screen showing cancelled and delayed flights
STORYLINE:
A handful of flights to and from Beirut's international airport were cancelled this week as tensions between Israel and Hezbollah escalate, with several carriers citing safety and security risks.
Summer air traffic continues as Lebanese expats greet their loved ones coming to spend the summer in Lebanon as they usually do.
For many, the imminent threat of war is something they are used to, says 71-year-old Mohammad Mokhalid.
He came from the southern Lebanese village of Jarjoug to pick his daughter and grandchildren from Beirut's Rafic Hariri Airport.
"We are not scared by the situation because we are used to this. When there are airstrikes, we hear them regularly," Mokhalid said.
Lebanon is expecting a retaliatory strike from Israel after a missile hit a soccer field in the town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-annexed Syrian Golan Heights over the weekend, killing 12 children and adolescents.
Israel accused the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah of carrying out the strike, to which Hezbollah issued a rare denial.
The incident has heightened fears that the nearly 10-months of low-boiling conflict between Hezbollah and Israeli forces in the border region could escalate into an all-out war, kicking off a flurry of diplomatic efforts to keep the situation under control.
Some European airlines have canceled flights in light of the increased tensions.
Frankfurt-based Lufthansa Group said Monday that three of its airlines — Lufthansa, Swiss and Eurowings — decided to suspend flights to and from Beirut "up to and including" August 5.
Air France also suspended some of its flights, while other airlines changed their flight schedules.
Lebanon's Middle East Airlines delayed some flights to arrive Tuesday morning instead of at night the carrier said, "due to technical reasons related to the distribution of insurance risks."
MEA chief Mohamad El-Hout, however, downplayed fears following a meeting with caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati, the state-run National News Agency said Hout had "denied that Rafik Hariri Airport had received any threats or information from any source that the airport would be attacked."
He pointed out Lufthansa Group had also canceled flights to Lebanon in the early months of the war in Gaza and border conflict in Lebanon.
For student Hadi Sharqawi, the news of cancellations and flights did not deter him from coming to Lebanon to see his family.
A student in Italy, Sharqawi was en route for two days and he navigated cancellations and transfers.
AP video shot by Fay Abuelgasim
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