The day after airstrikes shook Sidon, the Lebanon coastal city's streets were veiled in dust and rubble. Six people were killed and 37 were wounded, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.
Excavators sifted through the debris, loading trucks with remnants of destroyed homes. Residents cleared shattered glass and plaster from gaping walls. The airstrikes hit two residential buildings opposite Sayyed Shohada, a Hezbollah-linked complex.
Local resident Abdullah Habli called the attack “a massacre against civilians.”
“This building they bombed had no one in it. It housed poor, struggling people. This street is an ordinary residential street with ordinary, civilian residents. There are no weapons here,” Habli added.
Before the strikes, Israel had warned 16 southern villages to evacuate north of the Awwali River — but Sidon received no such warning.
“I haven’t seen any military activity here at all," said Mahmoud Al Ghoul, displaced from Mays al Jabal in the Marjeyoun province.
“(Israel) always claims Hezbollah fighters or weapons are in the area. But many of the areas it strikes have no Hezbollah, no Amal movement, or any other party,” said Ali Al-Amin, who had been displaced from Tyre, another Lebanese city.
