The emergency room of the American University of Beirut hospital, on the evening of Sept. 17, 2024. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine)
An ambulance with sirens blaring weaved through the crowd gathered outside the American University of Beirut Medical Center on Cairo Street.Hundreds of relatives of the pager attacks’ victims waited anxiously. Among them was a silent man seemingly in his 40s, pressed against the gate that separates him from the emergency room where his brother is hospitalized. His gaze was vacant and like many other relatives of Hezbollah members, refused to speak to the press.Gesturing to his eyes and hands, he conveyed that his brother lost both in the explosion of his pager at 3:30 p.m. — six hours earlier on this deadly day of Sept. 17. Read also Amputated, blinded: Grim avalanche of pager explosion injuries at Achrafieh’s Hôtel-Dieu hospital Beside him, an exhausted woman explained via video call to her mother that she has yet to see her...
An ambulance with sirens blaring weaved through the crowd gathered outside the American University of Beirut Medical Center on Cairo Street.Hundreds of relatives of the pager attacks’ victims waited anxiously. Among them was a silent man seemingly in his 40s, pressed against the gate that separates him from the emergency room where his brother is hospitalized. His gaze was vacant and like many other relatives of Hezbollah members, refused to speak to the press.Gesturing to his eyes and hands, he conveyed that his brother lost both in the explosion of his pager at 3:30 p.m. — six hours earlier on this deadly day of Sept. 17. Read also Amputated, blinded: Grim avalanche of pager explosion injuries at Achrafieh’s Hôtel-Dieu hospital Beside him, an exhausted woman explained via video call to her mother that she has yet to see...