A poster of Hassan Hammoud, a father of two, abducted by the Israeli army on Jan. 27, 2025, from his home in Taybeh, in southern Lebanon, taken in Beirut's southern suburbs on Nov. 25, 2025. (Credit: Tea Ziade/L'Orient Today)
The last words she remembers from her younger brother were ordinary, almost mundane, weighed down by exhaustion. After months of displacement — moving furniture up and down staircases, helping his parents, in-laws and his own small family relocate from one temporary shelter to another — Hassan Hammoud looked at his sister, Ola, and said he was “tired” — tired of the war, tired of being uprooted, tired of living out of bags.“Thank God the war ended. We’ll return better and stronger,” he told her before he picked up some of his belongings from her home in Beirut’s southern suburbs.On Jan. 27, 2025 — the day after the initial deadline for the Israeli withdrawal, which was later extended to Feb. 18 — Hassan, 40, returned to Taybeh, in the Marjayoun district of southern Lebanon, to inspect damage incurred to his house, on the outskirts of the...
The last words she remembers from her younger brother were ordinary, almost mundane, weighed down by exhaustion. After months of displacement — moving furniture up and down staircases, helping his parents, in-laws and his own small family relocate from one temporary shelter to another — Hassan Hammoud looked at his sister, Ola, and said he was “tired” — tired of the war, tired of being uprooted, tired of living out of bags.“Thank God the war ended. We’ll return better and stronger,” he told her before he picked up some of his belongings from her home in Beirut’s southern suburbs.On Jan. 27, 2025 — the day after the initial deadline for the Israeli withdrawal, which was later extended to Feb. 18 — Hassan, 40, returned to Taybeh, in the Marjayoun district of southern Lebanon, to inspect damage incurred to his house,...
