The building in Bourj Hammoud targeted on March 13 by an Israeli strike. (Credit: Lucile Wassermann/L'Orient-Le Jour)
Just over 24 hours after a precision strike targeted a building in the Bourj Hammoud-Nabaa area, in Beirut’s northeastern suburbs, the same building was hit again on the morning of Saturday, March 14.The strike killed one person — a Syrian national, Ali Omar, who was legally residing in Lebanon — and injured four others. On Saturday, the third floor was struck; the day before, it was the fourth floor that had been targeted.Residents of the neighborhood said the explosion was far more powerful than the one heard the previous day. Here is what they told our journalists Caroline Hayek and Lucile Wassermann after the first strike.An elderly Armenian man stops in front of the façade of a modern building. "Is this where they killed someone?" he asks, scrutinizing the two charred windows. "As if it wasn’t enough, now they come...
Just over 24 hours after a precision strike targeted a building in the Bourj Hammoud-Nabaa area, in Beirut’s northeastern suburbs, the same building was hit again on the morning of Saturday, March 14.The strike killed one person — a Syrian national, Ali Omar, who was legally residing in Lebanon — and injured four others. On Saturday, the third floor was struck; the day before, it was the fourth floor that had been targeted.Residents of the neighborhood said the explosion was far more powerful than the one heard the previous day. Here is what they told our journalists Caroline Hayek and Lucile Wassermann after the first strike.An elderly Armenian man stops in front of the façade of a modern building. "Is this where they killed someone?" he asks, scrutinizing the two charred windows. "As if it wasn’t enough, now...
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