Israel targeted the Ramada Hotel in Beirut's Raouche district with a drone strike in the early predawn hours of Sunday, March 8. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L'Orient Today)
It almost feels like a typical Sunday morning. Time drags; traffic is sparse; the capital sheds the tumults of the working week gone by. As winter gives way to spring, Beirut basks in the sun. But the calm is an illusion, quickly shattered by a new war about to enter its second week. Along the corniche, new arrivals from the South, the Bekaa, and the southern suburbs of Beirut mingle with a few regular strollers. While waiting for the horizon to clear, many have turned their cars into makeshift shelters, parked along the seafront. Just a stone's throw from the Raouche Rocks, the Ramada Hotel looks like a grid with a specific square marked over in black marker. Room 409. That's where the lenses of a throng of journalists, camped on the sidewalk across the street, all point towards. Unmissable. Located on the fourth floor, it was...
It almost feels like a typical Sunday morning. Time drags; traffic is sparse; the capital sheds the tumults of the working week gone by. As winter gives way to spring, Beirut basks in the sun. But the calm is an illusion, quickly shattered by a new war about to enter its second week. Along the corniche, new arrivals from the South, the Bekaa, and the southern suburbs of Beirut mingle with a few regular strollers. While waiting for the horizon to clear, many have turned their cars into makeshift shelters, parked along the seafront. Just a stone's throw from the Raouche Rocks, the Ramada Hotel looks like a grid with a specific square marked over in black marker. Room 409. That's where the lenses of a throng of journalists, camped on the sidewalk across the street, all point towards. Unmissable. Located on the fourth floor, it was...
