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Wartime jobs: Created for survival

With traditional livelihoods shattered, the people of the southern suburbs were forced by sheer necessity to invent new ways of making a living, even if it meant facing extreme danger.

Wartime jobs: Created for survival

A staff member of the Amel association, a Lebanese non-governmental organization, recovers items from their branch damaged by an Israeli strike on a neighboring building, in the Hay al-Sellom neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs, Dec. 2, 2024. (Credit: Anwar Amro/AFP)

“Not knowing the fate of your home is even harder than losing it,” Mohammad said. For two months, as bombs rained down on Beirut's southern suburbs, he braved the relentless barrage, riding his motorbike daily into the heart of the conflict zone...
“Not knowing the fate of your home is even harder than losing it,” Mohammad said. For two months, as bombs rained down on Beirut's southern suburbs, he braved the relentless barrage, riding his motorbike daily into the heart of the conflict zone...