Face-to-face between H.H. and little Ali in a supermarket in Haret al-Naameh on Oct. 31, 2025. (Photo: Mohammad Yassin/L'Orient Today)
"You're here, al-hamdellah! Your parents are looking for you everywhere." Ali, a Syrian child of five years old, turns pale and his body trembles. His eyes fixate on H.H., his neighbor's brother, a 28-year-old Syrian man. No one around him seems aware that this is the young man who has just brought an end to Ali's childhood.No one suspects that he raped and killed his ten-year-old sister, Khitam, before attempting to drown him. Residents gather in a supermarket in the coastal village of Haret al-Naameh (Chouf, Mount Lebanon) after having rescued Ali from wandering aimlessly on the side of the road. For more context In Lebanon, minors are both victims and perpetrators of alarming crime H.H. shamelessly approaches his victim again. The scene is captured by a surveillance camera. Frozen in the arms of the store...
"You're here, al-hamdellah! Your parents are looking for you everywhere." Ali, a Syrian child of five years old, turns pale and his body trembles. His eyes fixate on H.H., his neighbor's brother, a 28-year-old Syrian man. No one around him seems aware that this is the young man who has just brought an end to Ali's childhood.No one suspects that he raped and killed his ten-year-old sister, Khitam, before attempting to drown him. Residents gather in a supermarket in the coastal village of Haret al-Naameh (Chouf, Mount Lebanon) after having rescued Ali from wandering aimlessly on the side of the road. For more context In Lebanon, minors are both victims and perpetrators of alarming crime H.H. shamelessly approaches his victim again. The scene is captured by a surveillance camera. Frozen in the arms of the store...
