What remains of a building pulverized by an Israeli strike on the Basta al-Faouqa neighborhood in Beirut, on October 11, 2024, the day after the tragedy. (Credit Mohammad Yassine/L'Orient Today)
A photo of an elderly couple still hangs on the wall in the living room of this apartment in Basta al-Faouqa, a residential neighborhood in the heart of Beirut targeted by an Israeli airstrike on Thursday night. The room is upside down, covered in dust, but it is less damaged than the other three rooms, which have been nearly reduced to rubble. Two men are digging with their hands, trying to salvage what they can from the furniture buried under the debris. "My aunt Zeinab, I can’t talk... Please, do it for me," one of them asks. His aunt is standing in the adjacent room. Among the wreckage: a stuffed animal, a stroller, a small mattress with its bed frame... "All the stones fell on his two-year-old daughter and his wife. I don’t know how he found the strength to get them out," she says. The child is safe, but the wife is in intensive...
A photo of an elderly couple still hangs on the wall in the living room of this apartment in Basta al-Faouqa, a residential neighborhood in the heart of Beirut targeted by an Israeli airstrike on Thursday night. The room is upside down, covered in dust, but it is less damaged than the other three rooms, which have been nearly reduced to rubble. Two men are digging with their hands, trying to salvage what they can from the furniture buried under the debris. "My aunt Zeinab, I can’t talk... Please, do it for me," one of them asks. His aunt is standing in the adjacent room. Among the wreckage: a stuffed animal, a stroller, a small mattress with its bed frame... "All the stones fell on his two-year-old daughter and his wife. I don’t know how he found the strength to get them out," she says. The child is safe, but the wife is in...