Video and photos: Israeli strike levels building in Sidon’s New Industrial City, leaving widespread destruction
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Annahar inspected the scale of the extensive destruction caused by the Israeli strike, which at dawn today targeted a building inside the New Industrial City, the seafront area, in the Siniq neighborhood of Ghaziyeh, at the southern entrance to the city of Sidon.
The site appeared to be a disaster zone in every sense of the word. The targeted three-story building was completely leveled, while dozens of surrounding shops and industrial and commercial establishments suffered damage ranging from partial to total destruction.
A large number of parked cars were also wrecked. In addition, the glass fronts of other shops inside the industrial city were shattered. The industrial city includes dozens of businesses employing residents of Sidon and surrounding areas. These range from mechanical, metalworking, and painting workshops, to furniture stores, lathes, carpentry workshops, auto-parts shops, sweet shops, bakeries, and other professions.
The devastated shop owners repeated bitterly: “Our lives are in ruins… We don’t even have a single bullet.”
Mohammad Ahmad Wahbi, the owner of a café adjacent to the building that was destroyed, says: “Since the Israeli invasion in 1982, we’ve been living here day by day. What we’re seeing today is sheer devastation - the ruin of people’s lives. The building had three floors and was completely demolished.”
Israel had struck the area shortly after midnight, causing widespread destruction and severe material losses, amid shock and anger among residents and the owners of the affected businesses.
