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The morning after in Haret Hreik: 'I'm not afraid. We have the Sayyed on our side'

In Beirut's southern suburbs, the dust still hasn’t settled and shattered glass periodically falls out of its mangled frames, showering down on the journalists and rescue teams below.

The morning after in Haret Hreik: 'I'm not afraid. We have the Sayyed on our side'

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...
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...