Bilal (left) organizer of a community effort in Wadi al-Zayne to help displaced people during the Lebanon war, October 2024. (Credit: Olivia Le Poidevin/L'Orient Today)
BEIRUT — Cars and trucks laden with mattresses, suitcases, and anything hastily gathered in moments of escape, stream northward on Lebanon’s coastal highway as people flee the southern regions, on the fifth day of heavy Israeli bombardment throughout southern Lebanon and the Bekaa.As one approaches Wadi al-Zayne, a small town nestled on a hill in the Chouf district, 10 kilometers north of Saida, the car jolts over two consecutive bumps, lasting signs a bridge reconstructed after Israeli airstrikes flattened it on the first day Israel launched a war on Lebanon in 2006.Wadi al-Zayne, a town hosting a majority Palestinian population, has long served as a refuge in times of war. The first wave of Palestinian refugees arrived after Israel destroyed their camp in Nabatieh in 1974. Another influx of displaced Palestinians came following the...
BEIRUT — Cars and trucks laden with mattresses, suitcases, and anything hastily gathered in moments of escape, stream northward on Lebanon’s coastal highway as people flee the southern regions, on the fifth day of heavy Israeli bombardment throughout southern Lebanon and the Bekaa.As one approaches Wadi al-Zayne, a small town nestled on a hill in the Chouf district, 10 kilometers north of Saida, the car jolts over two consecutive bumps, lasting signs a bridge reconstructed after Israeli airstrikes flattened it on the first day Israel launched a war on Lebanon in 2006.Wadi al-Zayne, a town hosting a majority Palestinian population, has long served as a refuge in times of war. The first wave of Palestinian refugees arrived after Israel destroyed their camp in Nabatieh in 1974. Another influx of displaced Palestinians came following...