A man in front of the rubble of a building destroyed by an Israeli strike during the night of March 17 to 18, 2026, in the Bashoura neighborhood, in the heart of Beirut. (Credit: Matthieu Karam/L’Orient-Le Jour)
"War has come to Beirut." Mohammad, 18, with deep circles under his eyes, sits on a plastic chair on Beshara al-Khoury street, just steps from the Bashoura building pulverized by an Israeli strike at dawn on Wednesday.The building stood on the main road to downtown.After a night of Israeli strikes — some announced, others not — the targeted neighborhoods resemble war zones. This is not the first time since the start of the new war in Lebanon on March 2 that areas of Beirut outside the southern suburbs have been hit. But the strikes from Tuesday night into Wednesday marked a new escalation, following Hezbollah’s launch of rockets into Israel under a new wave of operations dubbed “Khaybar.”Bashoura, Zoqaq al-Blat, Basta... Located in the heart of Beirut, just a hundred meters from each other, these neighborhoods were hit four...
"War has come to Beirut." Mohammad, 18, with deep circles under his eyes, sits on a plastic chair on Beshara al-Khoury street, just steps from the Bashoura building pulverized by an Israeli strike at dawn on Wednesday.The building stood on the main road to downtown.After a night of Israeli strikes — some announced, others not — the targeted neighborhoods resemble war zones. This is not the first time since the start of the new war in Lebanon on March 2 that areas of Beirut outside the southern suburbs have been hit. But the strikes from Tuesday night into Wednesday marked a new escalation, following Hezbollah’s launch of rockets into Israel under a new wave of operations dubbed “Khaybar.”Bashoura, Zoqaq al-Blat, Basta... Located in the heart of Beirut, just a hundred meters from each other, these neighborhoods were...
