The site of the Israeli attack carried out on the Beirut waterfront from Wednesday night to Thursday morning was cordoned off by the army in the morning. (Credit: Lucile Wassermann/L’Orient-Le Jour)
Samir and Ahmad* have moved their tent to escape the area cordoned off by police and the Lebanese Army. One leans on a railing — now used as a clothesline — overlooking Ramlet al-Baida beach, while the other sits beneath the canvas. They arrived together at the start of the war, fleeing Israeli bombings in Qana, in southern Lebanon's Sour district."Yesterday was horrific. I saw a little girl explode into pieces. Bodies flew into the air before falling back down in fragments around us," Ahmad says. Wednesday night into Thursday, following a coordinated attack by Iran and Hezbollah on Israel, a frenzied wave of Israeli strikes shattered the brief respite they thought they had found in this corner of Beirut. The public beach's front has been hosting hundreds of families from southern Lebanon, the Bekaa Valley, and...
Samir and Ahmad* have moved their tent to escape the area cordoned off by police and the Lebanese Army. One leans on a railing — now used as a clothesline — overlooking Ramlet al-Baida beach, while the other sits beneath the canvas. They arrived together at the start of the war, fleeing Israeli bombings in Qana, in southern Lebanon's Sour district."Yesterday was horrific. I saw a little girl explode into pieces. Bodies flew into the air before falling back down in fragments around us," Ahmad says. Wednesday night into Thursday, following a coordinated attack by Iran and Hezbollah on Israel, a frenzied wave of Israeli strikes shattered the brief respite they thought they had found in this corner of Beirut. The public beach's front has been hosting hundreds of families from southern Lebanon, the Bekaa Valley, and...
