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‘I cried with relief': Lebanese react to news of a cease-fire in Gaza

“Glory to the Resistance and may this be the end of the occupation as we know it,” mathematics student at the American University of Beirut Yassin Abdel-Hadi told L’Orient Today.

‘I cried with relief': Lebanese react to news of a cease-fire in Gaza

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...
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...