People gather at a damaged site following an Israeli strike in the Zokak el-Blat area of Beirut on November 18, 2024. (Credit: Thaier al-Sudani/Reuters)
As if nothing had happened, people line up outside the local cafeteria, while the scent of man’ouche drifts from the nearby bakery. Salwa* and her son have made the journey from Khaldeh to see the dentist. "I wasn’t going to cancel..." says the mother, standing just steps from the targeted building in Zoqaq al-Blat, a neighborhood near the heart of the capital. Before her appointment, like dozens of others, she stopped by to survey the damage caused by the Israeli attack. On Monday, around 6 p.m., a strike hit a building in this diverse neighborhood. The next morning, a bulldozer began clearing the rubble. "At first, we were searching for body parts, then for supplies to help the displaced... Now we're clearing the road so we can get back to normal life," explained Hachem*, a local resident.In the span of just two days, the Israeli army...
As if nothing had happened, people line up outside the local cafeteria, while the scent of man’ouche drifts from the nearby bakery. Salwa* and her son have made the journey from Khaldeh to see the dentist. "I wasn’t going to cancel..." says the mother, standing just steps from the targeted building in Zoqaq al-Blat, a neighborhood near the heart of the capital. Before her appointment, like dozens of others, she stopped by to survey the damage caused by the Israeli attack. On Monday, around 6 p.m., a strike hit a building in this diverse neighborhood. The next morning, a bulldozer began clearing the rubble. "At first, we were searching for body parts, then for supplies to help the displaced... Now we're clearing the road so we can get back to normal life," explained Hachem*, a local resident.In the span of just two days, the Israeli...