(Credit: Background photo by Ibrahim Amro/AFP; Collage by Céline Bejjani/L’Orient-Le Jour)
Some lives are so intertwined with places that the two become inseparable. In Beirut, on Corniche al-Mazraa, Nader Khalil was one of those people. For 35 years, he did not just work at the Rifai roastery. He held his ground there, refusing to move. Day after day, until it became a given.On April 8, the day of the Israeli strike on this avenue — during "Black Wednesday," when Lebanon was struck more than 100 times in about 10 minutes, killing 357 and wounding 1,223 — Nader Khalil was still there, and he was killed there. War chronicles From Sour to the Serail: Qassem Shaalan, 47, devoted to the Red Cross His younger brother, Nabil, was with him that day. "I left him just two minutes before the strike." Two minutes. The time it takes for a quick errand, an everyday detour. When he arrived, he checked his phone. The...
Some lives are so intertwined with places that the two become inseparable. In Beirut, on Corniche al-Mazraa, Nader Khalil was one of those people. For 35 years, he did not just work at the Rifai roastery. He held his ground there, refusing to move. Day after day, until it became a given.On April 8, the day of the Israeli strike on this avenue — during "Black Wednesday," when Lebanon was struck more than 100 times in about 10 minutes, killing 357 and wounding 1,223 — Nader Khalil was still there, and he was killed there. War chronicles From Sour to the Serail: Qassem Shaalan, 47, devoted to the Red Cross His younger brother, Nabil, was with him that day. "I left him just two minutes before the strike." Two minutes. The time it takes for a quick errand, an everyday detour. When he arrived, he checked his phone....
Israeli strikes kill 20 people in 24 hours in Lebanon 