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On Friday, March 13, Caroline, Lucile, and her camera went to Burj Hammoud, an Armenian-majority northern Beirut suburb, looking for a building that had been hit by an Israeli strike a few hours earlier.Any reporter would confirm that going into the field is always an adventure: What will we see? What will we hear? How will we be received? Who will we meet?To find the building, they asked two elderly Armenian men sipping coffee on a terrace. They answered suspiciously: “Why are you asking?”“Because we are journalists,” one of them replied.“Journalists or Israelis?” the men retorted. The end result ‘I knew they would eventually target this building...’: How Bourj Hammoud came under Israeli fire The reporters insisted on their good faith, and the men were eventually convinced. “Well, if you really are journalists, come back and tell...
On Friday, March 13, Caroline, Lucile, and her camera went to Burj Hammoud, an Armenian-majority northern Beirut suburb, looking for a building that had been hit by an Israeli strike a few hours earlier.Any reporter would confirm that going into the field is always an adventure: What will we see? What will we hear? How will we be received? Who will we meet?To find the building, they asked two elderly Armenian men sipping coffee on a terrace. They answered suspiciously: “Why are you asking?”“Because we are journalists,” one of them replied.“Journalists or Israelis?” the men retorted. The end result ‘I knew they would eventually target this building...’: How Bourj Hammoud came under Israeli fire The reporters insisted on their good faith, and the men were eventually convinced. “Well, if you really are journalists,...
