Displaced children from southern Lebanon welcomed in a school in Beirut, Tuesday, Sept. 24. (Credit: Mohammad Yassin/L'Orient-Le Jour)
Sitting at the corner of Hafez al-Assad Street in Bir Hassan, south of Beirut, six women sit on the ground in front of a parapet featuring a stern portrait of Khomeini. Seven children, aged one to five, rest on their laps as three men bring them juices and cookies. Their weary faces reveal the toll of a long journey from far away."We were in Kfar Roummane when the bombings began in the village. All around us, people got into their cars and left, so we fled too, but on foot, because we don’t have a vehicle and no one offered us a ride," recounts Yasser Moustafa Sawadi, 27. They left at 2 p.m. on Monday and arrived in Saida at 6 a.m. the next day, witnessing dawn after a day of horror. "On the Zahrani road, bombs were falling around the cars. I saw one burn with a family inside. It was like a horror movie," he continues, still in shock....
Sitting at the corner of Hafez al-Assad Street in Bir Hassan, south of Beirut, six women sit on the ground in front of a parapet featuring a stern portrait of Khomeini. Seven children, aged one to five, rest on their laps as three men bring them juices and cookies. Their weary faces reveal the toll of a long journey from far away."We were in Kfar Roummane when the bombings began in the village. All around us, people got into their cars and left, so we fled too, but on foot, because we don’t have a vehicle and no one offered us a ride," recounts Yasser Moustafa Sawadi, 27. They left at 2 p.m. on Monday and arrived in Saida at 6 a.m. the next day, witnessing dawn after a day of horror. "On the Zahrani road, bombs were falling around the cars. I saw one burn with a family inside. It was like a horror movie," he continues, still in...
