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A devastating Israeli airstrike targeted a residential area in Lebanon's Kaifon district, southeast of Beirut, on 8 April as part of 'Operation Eternal Darkness'. A CCTV footage accessed showed a narrow escape for two young girls who were walking when the airstrike hit the residential area.
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00:05Not just Al Chai Abiyah, but CCTV footage from Kaifon, which is Lebanon's Al-Aid district,
00:10southeast of Beirut, also witnessing Israeli strikes. However, this time I can confirm to
00:15you that this was a residential area in Lebanon, which was hit. Now this is 8th of April. So the
00:22footage that we have accessed, and after we've been able to verify from our sources, 8th of April,
00:27a person pushing a stroller, and two young girls walked just meters away. Look at that.
00:34You can clearly sense that it was a civilian population. We don't have clarity about the
00:41casualties, but the blast clearly engulfing the street in smoke. The girls appear to escape.
00:47The person pushing the stroller, which means clearly a baby in there, were caught in the
00:53aftermath in the strike. We are told that at least six people have lost their life in Kaifon.
01:01Thirteen have been wounded. There have been consistently about 100 airstrikes in 10 minutes
01:06across Lebanon. This was Operation Eternal Darkness from Israel. Israel claims that they
01:13have been targeting the Hezbollah targets. Hezbollah, which has been supported by Iran as a proxy war.
01:19But if the stroller had a child, remember, this is going to be the humanitarian cost also
01:26that the other regimes will have to answer for. So we'll try and get more clarity. But
01:31an otherwise residential street, people walking on and about. From this visual access from 8th of April
01:37in Kaifon in Lebanon, I can confirm to you that six people have lost their life and 13 injured. And
01:43from the
01:43visual, it is clear that while two girls walking were able to at least appear to have escaped
01:48it, possibly with injuries, but there was somebody, a person, individual with a stroller. Stroller,
01:55of course, that carries an infant or a toddler, were caught in the aftermath.
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