Residents of Beirut's southern suburbs in the rubble of buildings. (Credit: Mohammad Yassin/L'Orient-Le Jour)
A tarp covers plastic chairs and small tables from the rain, with an espresso machine set up in the trunk of a red van. On a sidewalk in Tayyouneh, former regulars of Uncle Nabil’s cafe from Haret Hreik in Beirut’s southern suburbs, who like the cafe itself, were displaced by Israeli airstrikes, gather daily to discuss the ongoing war, sharing humor darker than the coffee they sip from plastic cups.‘Turning residents against Hezbollah’Not far from the makeshift cafe stands the charred remains of an 11-story building, destroyed by a 900-kilogram U.S.-made bomb dropped by an Israeli aircraft on Nov. 15. Nearby, another building lay in ruins, flattened by a similar strike on Oct. 22. Four days later, faint, acrid smoke still rises from the rubble, spilling onto the street. “We were sitting here when the explosion happened,” said Amine,...
A tarp covers plastic chairs and small tables from the rain, with an espresso machine set up in the trunk of a red van. On a sidewalk in Tayyouneh, former regulars of Uncle Nabil’s cafe from Haret Hreik in Beirut’s southern suburbs, who like the cafe itself, were displaced by Israeli airstrikes, gather daily to discuss the ongoing war, sharing humor darker than the coffee they sip from plastic cups.‘Turning residents against Hezbollah’Not far from the makeshift cafe stands the charred remains of an 11-story building, destroyed by a 900-kilogram U.S.-made bomb dropped by an Israeli aircraft on Nov. 15. Nearby, another building lay in ruins, flattened by a similar strike on Oct. 22. Four days later, faint, acrid smoke still rises from the rubble, spilling onto the street. “We were sitting here when the explosion happened,” said...