A residential building targeted by an Israeli strike on Oct. 6 in Keyfoun. (Credit: Emmanuel Haddad/ L'Orient Le-Jour)
Amid the rubble of a building perched high in Aley district's Keyfoun, nestled within a pine forest, a swing hangs lifeless, its seat gone. On nearby branches, remnants of carpets and charred pieces of plastic sway — a stark reminder of the Israeli airstrike that hit this residential building on Sunday, Oct. 6. The attack killed six people, according to the Health Ministry.On the same day, another airstrike in the neighboring village of Qmatieh (Aley), four kilometers away, killed six more people, including three children.The next day, Monday, Oct. 7, in one of Keyfoun's narrow, sloping alleyways, around 20 men and women gathered in grief at the local cemetery. But they were not mourning the family lost in Sunday’s attack, but rather the mokhtar's (local official) wife. "They [the people killed in the Israeli strike] were displaced from...
Amid the rubble of a building perched high in Aley district's Keyfoun, nestled within a pine forest, a swing hangs lifeless, its seat gone. On nearby branches, remnants of carpets and charred pieces of plastic sway — a stark reminder of the Israeli airstrike that hit this residential building on Sunday, Oct. 6. The attack killed six people, according to the Health Ministry.On the same day, another airstrike in the neighboring village of Qmatieh (Aley), four kilometers away, killed six more people, including three children.The next day, Monday, Oct. 7, in one of Keyfoun's narrow, sloping alleyways, around 20 men and women gathered in grief at the local cemetery. But they were not mourning the family lost in Sunday’s attack, but rather the mokhtar's (local official) wife. "They [the people killed in the Israeli strike] were displaced...