Salim Sakr, architect, in front of the apartment targeted the previous day by an Israeli strike in Hazmieh, on March 24, 2026. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L’Orient-Le Jour)
The sharp noise of shattered glass and clearing rubble still echoes through the usually quiet streets of Hazmieh on this Tuesday morning, east of Beirut. After an Israeli strike targeted the upscale "al-Gharib" building the previous day, as well as the neighboring one, workers are operating under heavy surveillance. They are clearing out blow-out façades and removing collapsed ceiling panels, while the Lebanese army maintains a tight cordon around the area. Underscoring the sensitivity of the site, army intelligence units and personnel linked to the presidential palace were deployed to the street within the hour in the upscale Mar Takla neighbourhood. It was here, in the heart of a luxury residential building, that a member of the Lebanese branch of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ al-Quds Force was killed— in a...
The sharp noise of shattered glass and clearing rubble still echoes through the usually quiet streets of Hazmieh on this Tuesday morning, east of Beirut. After an Israeli strike targeted the upscale "al-Gharib" building the previous day, as well as the neighboring one, workers are operating under heavy surveillance. They are clearing out blow-out façades and removing collapsed ceiling panels, while the Lebanese army maintains a tight cordon around the area. Underscoring the sensitivity of the site, army intelligence units and personnel linked to the presidential palace were deployed to the street within the hour in the upscale Mar Takla neighbourhood. It was here, in the heart of a luxury residential building, that a member of the Lebanese branch of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ al-Quds Force was killed— in...
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