Search
Search

AFTER THE WAR

In Kfar Shuba, the Khalife family returns to a destroyed home for the sixth time

Born in 1944, Riad Khalife was forced to flee Kfar Shuba during every major conflict in the last 80 years — the Nakba, the 1967 war, the occupation, 2006, 2023 — and he returned every time. 

In Kfar Shuba, the Khalife family returns to a destroyed home for the sixth time

Abu Bilal and Em Bilal at their daughter's house in Kfar Zabad, Bekaa district, two months after displacement on Dec. 8, 2023. (Credit: Marguerita Sejaan/L'Orient Today)

On Nov. 26, the eve of the truce between Hezbollah and Israel, Riad Khalife was thinking about how in the morning he would finally go home, to Kfar Shuba, to his olive groves, to his garden where he takes care of his fig trees, the grape vines and...
On Nov. 26, the eve of the truce between Hezbollah and Israel, Riad Khalife was thinking about how in the morning he would finally go home, to Kfar Shuba, to his olive groves, to his garden where he takes care of his fig trees, the grape vines and...