A young person sits on the mattress provided for them at a school housing displaced folks in Deir Ammar, north of Tripoli. (Credit: AFP)
Elie* and the other residents of this Mansourieh building may have argued over setting up solar panels or a parking space. But they’ve been on the same page for the past three weeks. “There is no way our neighborhood becomes another southern suburb,” Elie said. In the hours after the large-scale Israeli strikes that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Sept. 27, families from Beirut’s southern suburb arrived in the neighborhood to take refuge. “It may be harsh to say it, but we did everything we could to make sure the owners of empty apartments don’t lease them,” said the young man who works in the medical field.The massive displacement, mainly from the south, but also from Beirut’s southern suburb and even the Bekaa Valley, has changed the face of the capital in less than a month. More than 1.2 million people fled their homes to...
Elie* and the other residents of this Mansourieh building may have argued over setting up solar panels or a parking space. But they’ve been on the same page for the past three weeks. “There is no way our neighborhood becomes another southern suburb,” Elie said. In the hours after the large-scale Israeli strikes that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Sept. 27, families from Beirut’s southern suburb arrived in the neighborhood to take refuge. “It may be harsh to say it, but we did everything we could to make sure the owners of empty apartments don’t lease them,” said the young man who works in the medical field.The massive displacement, mainly from the south, but also from Beirut’s southern suburb and even the Bekaa Valley, has changed the face of the capital in less than a month. More than 1.2 million people fled...