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Missiles or not, Manal no longer sleeps. Instead, at night, she keeps one eye on the news and makes sure that no shell has landed on her house in Bir Hassan, which she left in the early hours of the war.In mid-March, Israeli airstrikes hit the neighborhoods of Bashoura and Zoqaq al-Blat. That night, in the middle of the night, Manal, her mother, and her sister receive a phone call. On the line, an operator speaks in Arabic: "You are located near a Hezbollah building, you are ordered to evacuate immediately." The everyday In photos: Daily life in Beirut amid the war The three women are staying in a rental apartment in Achrafieh. The new war is already in its second week. A wave of panic sweeps through the walls. Could the Israelis target the Christian neighborhood? Does the warning concern their home in Bir Hassan? The...
Missiles or not, Manal no longer sleeps. Instead, at night, she keeps one eye on the news and makes sure that no shell has landed on her house in Bir Hassan, which she left in the early hours of the war.In mid-March, Israeli airstrikes hit the neighborhoods of Bashoura and Zoqaq al-Blat. That night, in the middle of the night, Manal, her mother, and her sister receive a phone call. On the line, an operator speaks in Arabic: "You are located near a Hezbollah building, you are ordered to evacuate immediately." The everyday In photos: Daily life in Beirut amid the war The three women are staying in a rental apartment in Achrafieh. The new war is already in its second week. A wave of panic sweeps through the walls. Could the Israelis target the Christian neighborhood? Does the warning concern their home in Bir Hassan? The...