A member of the firefighting brigade from the southern suburbs of Beirut at the site of the Israeli attack targeting Hadath on March 28, 2025. (Credit: Mohammad Yassin/L'Orient-Le Jour)
A pile of rubble, broken glass scattered across the street, commotion around the security cordon, the smell of gunpowder lingering in the air, the sound of a bulldozer clearing debris and masked soldiers — these are scenes Youssef has witnessed countless times in his neighborhood. Except this time, the building reduced to rubble by Israeli strikes was his own. It was Friday at 1:45 p.m. when Tel Aviv chose to conduct an airstrike on Jamous Street in Hadath, located in Beirut's southern suburbs. This marked the first such escalation since the cease-fire agreement between Hezbollah and Israel went into effect on Nov. 27, 2024, ending 13 months of attrition war that killed more than 4,000 people in Lebanon. Read more ‘It was chaos’: In Beirut southern suburbs, residents react The agreement, however, remains frail, with Friday’s...
A pile of rubble, broken glass scattered across the street, commotion around the security cordon, the smell of gunpowder lingering in the air, the sound of a bulldozer clearing debris and masked soldiers — these are scenes Youssef has witnessed countless times in his neighborhood. Except this time, the building reduced to rubble by Israeli strikes was his own. It was Friday at 1:45 p.m. when Tel Aviv chose to conduct an airstrike on Jamous Street in Hadath, located in Beirut's southern suburbs. This marked the first such escalation since the cease-fire agreement between Hezbollah and Israel went into effect on Nov. 27, 2024, ending 13 months of attrition war that killed more than 4,000 people in Lebanon. Read more ‘It was chaos’: In Beirut southern suburbs, residents react The agreement, however, remains frail, with...