Images of life in Alma al-Shaab, a village in southern Lebanon on the Israeli border, when war is not raging. (Credit: Elianor al-Khoury, resident of the village)
A few hours after the war began, on March 2, the bells of the Church of Our Lady of Alma al-Shaab rang out in the night. Not for mass, but as a sign of defiance.Following an evacuation order issued by Arabic-speaking Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee, residents gathered in the church square at the center of this village in southern Lebanon, to firmly state their refusal to leave. Up until the day before the Israeli warning, about 350 people still lived in Alma al-Shaab. Another southern village 'In Yater, we were happy. There was love' But Israeli threats pushed around 150 residents to leave. After Israel killed Parish Priest Pierre al-Rai, on March 9, during airstrikes in Qlayaa (Marjayoun district), followed the next day by the death of a man in his 70s from Alma al-Shaab in an Israeli drone strike while watering his...
A few hours after the war began, on March 2, the bells of the Church of Our Lady of Alma al-Shaab rang out in the night. Not for mass, but as a sign of defiance.Following an evacuation order issued by Arabic-speaking Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee, residents gathered in the church square at the center of this village in southern Lebanon, to firmly state their refusal to leave. Up until the day before the Israeli warning, about 350 people still lived in Alma al-Shaab. Another southern village 'In Yater, we were happy. There was love' But Israeli threats pushed around 150 residents to leave. After Israel killed Parish Priest Pierre al-Rai, on March 9, during airstrikes in Qlayaa (Marjayoun district), followed the next day by the death of a man in his 70s from Alma al-Shaab in an Israeli drone strike while watering his...
