‘I used to think the resistance was protecting us'
After the deadly Israeli strike in the heart of Sour, the population is distraught. Some blame Israel, some the Lebanese state, but others also criticize Hezbollah.
A building damaged by Israeli aviation in the center of Sour on March 23, 2025, the day after the attack. (Credit: Matthieu Karam/L'Orient-Le Jour)
In the gutted living room of a building in central Sour, velvet red sofas clung dangerously close to the void. Standing on the debris of his neighbor's apartment, Ahmad* still hasn't processed what happened to him the previous day. "I didn’t expect the city to be targeted," he said, exhausted.Around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, after a day of fasting during Ramadan, the octogenarian was about to drink his coffee when two strikes hit his building, killing his neighbor and damaging a gym below. In shock, he wandered around his apartment before fleeing to his son’s home. "Hezbollah has referred to the state... I don't understand why Israel continues to do this," the widower lamented before returning home.The gutted living room of a floor hit by an Israeli strike, in central Sour, on March 23, 2025. (Credit:...
In the gutted living room of a building in central Sour, velvet red sofas clung dangerously close to the void. Standing on the debris of his neighbor's apartment, Ahmad* still hasn't processed what happened to him the previous day. "I didn’t expect the city to be targeted," he said, exhausted.Around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, after a day of fasting during Ramadan, the octogenarian was about to drink his coffee when two strikes hit his building, killing his neighbor and damaging a gym below. In shock, he wandered around his apartment before fleeing to his son’s home. "Hezbollah has referred to the state... I don't understand why Israel continues to do this," the widower lamented before returning home.The gutted living room of a floor hit by an Israeli strike, in central Sour, on March 23, 2025. (Credit:...
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