Protest in Manara, Beirut in solidarity with Gaza in 2024. (Credit: Mohammed Yassin/L'Orient Today)
BEIRUT — On a sunny January day, the day after the cease-fire was announced and three days before it was set to officially take effect, Hamra Street — known for its leftist background and as a site of several protests demanding an end to the Gaza war — was bustling with people, many wearing kuffiyehs.“Glory to the Resistance, and may this be the end of the occupation as we know it,” said Yassin Abdel-Hadi, a mathematics student at the American University of Beirut (AUB), speaking to L’Orient Today.For Ibrahim Mohammed, Abdel-Hadi’s friend and colleague at the American University of Beirut, the cease-fire brings a mix of emotions. “The days after will be very hard on Gazans who lost loved ones. I know because the day after the Lebanon cease-fire, it dawned on me that I had lost my brother and five-year-old niece in a strike on Deir Seryan...
BEIRUT — On a sunny January day, the day after the cease-fire was announced and three days before it was set to officially take effect, Hamra Street — known for its leftist background and as a site of several protests demanding an end to the Gaza war — was bustling with people, many wearing kuffiyehs.“Glory to the Resistance, and may this be the end of the occupation as we know it,” said Yassin Abdel-Hadi, a mathematics student at the American University of Beirut (AUB), speaking to L’Orient Today.For Ibrahim Mohammed, Abdel-Hadi’s friend and colleague at the American University of Beirut, the cease-fire brings a mix of emotions. “The days after will be very hard on Gazans who lost loved ones. I know because the day after the Lebanon cease-fire, it dawned on me that I had lost my brother and five-year-old niece in a...
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