Yitzhak Shamir meets General Antoine Lahd, Commander-in-Chief of the South Lebanon Army, July 18, 1985. (Credit: Jaimee Haddad/AFP)
As the war that started on March 2, 2026, rages on in Lebanon and in light of the Israeli strike on Ain Saade on April 5, we invite you to revisit this article originally published on Nov. 6, 2024.It was June 25, 1978 in Bint Jbeil. The streets are empty, as if struck by “an earthquake,” wrote Maroun Baghdadi, a journalist and filmmaker, in the pages of L’Orient-Le Jour that day. The cyclone has passed, the Israelis have withdrawn, but the village is left with nothing.Without electricity, homes are plunged into darkness as night falls. “It’s then that people start talking about the massacres in the surrounding areas,” he added.Just a few kilometers away, in the neighboring town of Ghandourieh, “the Israeli war machine has razed everything.” Cluster bombs, napalm, incendiary bombs: “The landscape is now flattened.”In Jwayya, “even the...
As the war that started on March 2, 2026, rages on in Lebanon and in light of the Israeli strike on Ain Saade on April 5, we invite you to revisit this article originally published on Nov. 6, 2024.It was June 25, 1978 in Bint Jbeil. The streets are empty, as if struck by “an earthquake,” wrote Maroun Baghdadi, a journalist and filmmaker, in the pages of L’Orient-Le Jour that day. The cyclone has passed, the Israelis have withdrawn, but the village is left with nothing.Without electricity, homes are plunged into darkness as night falls. “It’s then that people start talking about the massacres in the surrounding areas,” he added.Just a few kilometers away, in the neighboring town of Ghandourieh, “the Israeli war machine has razed everything.” Cluster bombs, napalm, incendiary bombs: “The landscape is now flattened.”In...
