Site of Israeli attack in Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the morning after on 31 July 2024. (Credit: Mohammad Yassin/L'Orient Today)
BEIRUT — Ali Imad, a man in his early 40s, pauses from sweeping up shattered glass and stands, broom in one hand, to show something he found on the ground — what appears to be shrapnel from one of the rockets fired by Israeli jets on a residential building the night before. Imad is the owner of a men's clothing store in Haret Hreik called Other Side that sells trendy menswear and formal suits. He was in the store when he heard the explosion. He and one of his employees immediately ran outside to see what had happened.“It didn’t sound like Israel breaching the sound barrier as it usually does,” he said. “I knew it was something bigger because of how loud the strike was.”They were met with clouds of dust coming out of one of the buildings facing the store.“I just knew it was an assassination attempt,” he said, noting that he was not...
BEIRUT — Ali Imad, a man in his early 40s, pauses from sweeping up shattered glass and stands, broom in one hand, to show something he found on the ground — what appears to be shrapnel from one of the rockets fired by Israeli jets on a residential building the night before. Imad is the owner of a men's clothing store in Haret Hreik called Other Side that sells trendy menswear and formal suits. He was in the store when he heard the explosion. He and one of his employees immediately ran outside to see what had happened.“It didn’t sound like Israel breaching the sound barrier as it usually does,” he said. “I knew it was something bigger because of how loud the strike was.”They were met with clouds of dust coming out of one of the buildings facing the store.“I just knew it was an assassination attempt,” he said, noting...
