A displaced family sheltering in a public school in Lebanon. (Credit: Mohammad Yassin/L'Orient Today/Illustrative photo)
“It felt like [the coronavirus] lockdown in a way, being confined in one place together with your family after having lost your job, not being able to leave the house that much, and the fear, the constant fear,” Sabrina Mohieddine told L’Orient Today over the phone, pausing to take a long drag of her cigarette.On Sept. 23, Mohieddine’s relatives fled Housh, a village in Sour district, where Israeli bombs were suddenly raining down from the sky. All 42 of them came to stay with her in her five-bedroom apartment in Ras al-Nabaa, central Beirut.Then on Oct. 10, Israeli jets bombed that same neighborhood. The strikes shattered her apartment windows and the glass in her balcony doors, leaving them exposed to the cold, damp winter air. They didn’t replace the glass, taping thick plastic sheets to the frames instead, since they didn’t trust...
“It felt like [the coronavirus] lockdown in a way, being confined in one place together with your family after having lost your job, not being able to leave the house that much, and the fear, the constant fear,” Sabrina Mohieddine told L’Orient Today over the phone, pausing to take a long drag of her cigarette.On Sept. 23, Mohieddine’s relatives fled Housh, a village in Sour district, where Israeli bombs were suddenly raining down from the sky. All 42 of them came to stay with her in her five-bedroom apartment in Ras al-Nabaa, central Beirut.Then on Oct. 10, Israeli jets bombed that same neighborhood. The strikes shattered her apartment windows and the glass in her balcony doors, leaving them exposed to the cold, damp winter air. They didn’t replace the glass, taping thick plastic sheets to the frames instead, since they...
