Hassan Daher at his home, on Aug. 6 in Debbine, with portraits of his wife Fatima (right) and his daughter Amal (left), who were killed by an Israeli drone strike. (Credit: Emmanuel Haddad/L'Orient-Le Jour)
The wall is pockmarked with shrapnel, except for the spot where Fatima was standing on Dec. 8 — the day that shattered her husband’s life.“She was doing the laundry when the [Israeli] drone struck. That’s why this part of the wall is intact: the shrapnel pierced through,” Hassan Daher said on Aug. 6, sitting in the patio of his house in Debbine, in southern Lebanon's Marjayoun district.“She died instantly. I wasn’t able to wash away the bloodstains,” he added, pointing to brown patches on the floor tiles.He then turned toward the balcony on the ground floor, riddled with shell fragments. “There, my daughter Amal was hanging the laundry. When we arrived with my son Hussein, her body was trembling on the ground, silently. She died in the hospital on Dec. 12. Her husband, Ali, was lying next to her.” As lived on the ground In southern...
The wall is pockmarked with shrapnel, except for the spot where Fatima was standing on Dec. 8 — the day that shattered her husband’s life.“She was doing the laundry when the [Israeli] drone struck. That’s why this part of the wall is intact: the shrapnel pierced through,” Hassan Daher said on Aug. 6, sitting in the patio of his house in Debbine, in southern Lebanon's Marjayoun district.“She died instantly. I wasn’t able to wash away the bloodstains,” he added, pointing to brown patches on the floor tiles.He then turned toward the balcony on the ground floor, riddled with shell fragments. “There, my daughter Amal was hanging the laundry. When we arrived with my son Hussein, her body was trembling on the ground, silently. She died in the hospital on Dec. 12. Her husband, Ali, was lying next to her.” As lived on...