Collage: (Left) Mia Atoui, clinical psychologist and co-founder and president of Embrace, (bottom right) Rafik Hariri Hospital corridor (Credit: Olivia Le Poidevin/LOrient Today) and (top right) a cloud of smoke erupts during Israeli airstrikes on a village south of Sour in southern Lebanon on Sept. 25, 2024 (Credit: Hasan Fneich/AFP)
At the headquarters of the mental health charity Embrace in Hamra, the phones are ringing incessantly. People from across Lebanon are reaching out for support as they watch the country they love fall apart.In the last week, the country has witnessed the unthinkable: Beirut's southern suburbs pounded by Israeli airstrikes on Friday, flattening six apartment buildings and killing Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah. This comes just days after the deadliest day since the end of the Civil War in 1990, as Israel carried out hundreds of strikes on southern Lebanon and the Bekaa, killing 569 people and injuring 1,645 – in an attempt, Israel says, to destroy Hezbollah’s military capabilities.What was once a relatively contained, attritional conflict has spiraled into a living nightmare, with homes and shops from Nabatieh, to the Bekaa to Beirut...
At the headquarters of the mental health charity Embrace in Hamra, the phones are ringing incessantly. People from across Lebanon are reaching out for support as they watch the country they love fall apart.In the last week, the country has witnessed the unthinkable: Beirut's southern suburbs pounded by Israeli airstrikes on Friday, flattening six apartment buildings and killing Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah. This comes just days after the deadliest day since the end of the Civil War in 1990, as Israel carried out hundreds of strikes on southern Lebanon and the Bekaa, killing 569 people and injuring 1,645 – in an attempt, Israel says, to destroy Hezbollah’s military capabilities.What was once a relatively contained, attritional conflict has spiraled into a living nightmare, with homes and shops from Nabatieh, to the Bekaa to...
