A man watches a video, published on social media, showing a wounded man on Sept. 17, 2024, after explosions hit locations in several Hezbollah strongholds around Lebanon. (Credit: AFP)
BEIRUT — Hamra Street, usually noisy and bustling, is eerily calm. Any other day, the street would be alive with people, street food vendors, shoppers, and students — but not today. More than 30 people were killed and thousands injured after two consecutive days of an unprecedented attack attributed to Israel, whereby pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah were detonated across the country.“I feel like I’m living in a science fiction movie where devices explode,” says Ali Husseini, a mechanical engineer, while sipping coffee in his neighborhood café in Msharafieh. Just the day before, he had heard what he thought was a gunshot. Then he watched in horror as a man across the street fell to the ground, bleeding and screaming in pain. Read more. Amputated, blinded: Grim avalanche of pager explosion injuries at Achrafieh’s Hôtel-Dieu...
BEIRUT — Hamra Street, usually noisy and bustling, is eerily calm. Any other day, the street would be alive with people, street food vendors, shoppers, and students — but not today. More than 30 people were killed and thousands injured after two consecutive days of an unprecedented attack attributed to Israel, whereby pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah were detonated across the country.“I feel like I’m living in a science fiction movie where devices explode,” says Ali Husseini, a mechanical engineer, while sipping coffee in his neighborhood café in Msharafieh. Just the day before, he had heard what he thought was a gunshot. Then he watched in horror as a man across the street fell to the ground, bleeding and screaming in pain. Read more. Amputated, blinded: Grim avalanche of pager explosion injuries at...