A stuffed toy among the rubble of a building destroyed by an Israeli strike in Sour, southern Lebanon, in 2024. (Credit: Mohammad Yassin/L’Orient-Le Jour)
In the cramped apartment where she now lives in Aramoun (Aley), Fatima silently watches her children play. Her eight-year-old son is piecing together a puzzle he once hid under his bed, hoping to find it intact after the recent war between Israel and Hezbollah. But his toys, like the family home in Hadath in Beirut’s southern suburbs, vanished under Israeli bombardments. "It's not normal for my son to ask me what type of missile was used or who died a martyr every time Israel violates the cease-fire," she murmurs, perplexed.Two years after the conflict began on Oct. 8, 2023, escalating to an open war in September 2024, "children continue to pay the heaviest price," warns Marcoluigi Corsi, UNICEF’s representative in Lebanon, speaking to L’Orient-Le Jour. On-the-ground Palestinian refugees in Lebanon feel Western...
In the cramped apartment where she now lives in Aramoun (Aley), Fatima silently watches her children play. Her eight-year-old son is piecing together a puzzle he once hid under his bed, hoping to find it intact after the recent war between Israel and Hezbollah. But his toys, like the family home in Hadath in Beirut’s southern suburbs, vanished under Israeli bombardments. "It's not normal for my son to ask me what type of missile was used or who died a martyr every time Israel violates the cease-fire," she murmurs, perplexed.Two years after the conflict began on Oct. 8, 2023, escalating to an open war in September 2024, "children continue to pay the heaviest price," warns Marcoluigi Corsi, UNICEF’s representative in Lebanon, speaking to L’Orient-Le Jour. On-the-ground Palestinian refugees in Lebanon feel...
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