Residents gather at the site of an Israeli strike in Ain Yaacoub, Akkar region, Nov. 12, 2024. (Credit: Fathi al-Masri/AFP)
The same scene unfolds over and over again. A building, once a home housing the displaced, was reduced to rubble, with burnt cars scattered all around. On the mountain of debris, rescue workers sift through the wreckage, clearing the area as they search for the bodies of the missing. On the floor: blood and charred bits of flesh. This war scene did not occur in Beirut’s southern suburbs, the Bekaa Valley or southern Lebanon, but in Ain Yaacoub, in the northernmost region of Akkar, on a Monday evening. The day after this unprecedented deadly strike in the district, the same sense of insecurity resurfaced across the country: the Israeli army struck, once again, "where it was least expected." Perched on a hill in the middle of nowhere, Ain Yaacoub — a predominantly Sunni village where 2,000 residents and 400 displaced persons currently...
The same scene unfolds over and over again. A building, once a home housing the displaced, was reduced to rubble, with burnt cars scattered all around. On the mountain of debris, rescue workers sift through the wreckage, clearing the area as they search for the bodies of the missing. On the floor: blood and charred bits of flesh. This war scene did not occur in Beirut’s southern suburbs, the Bekaa Valley or southern Lebanon, but in Ain Yaacoub, in the northernmost region of Akkar, on a Monday evening. The day after this unprecedented deadly strike in the district, the same sense of insecurity resurfaced across the country: the Israeli army struck, once again, "where it was least expected." Perched on a hill in the middle of nowhere, Ain Yaacoub — a predominantly Sunni village where 2,000 residents and 400 displaced persons...