Jameel Jrab (Photo provided by his family; Montage by L'Orient Today)
His father had sent Jamil Jrab to Lebanon to escape the civil war in Syria, but death caught up with him in Beirut.It was his day off, and as he always did during his free time, the 28-year-old sous-chef left his kitchen to be with his family. On April 8, after playing with his four-month-old daughter, a ritual he never missed, he went to have lunch with a friend and neighbor in Hay al-Sellom, in Beirut’s southern suburbs.On that Wednesday, a series of coordinated Israeli strikes rained down on Beirut, killing over 350 people. One of them struck him down right before the eyes of his father. Some of the lives stolen on April 8 Names and faces of those killed by Israel in its April 8 massacre In 2011, at just 13 years old, the teenager left his hometown of Aleppo, just as the war began to rage, and crossed the border alone to join his...
His father had sent Jamil Jrab to Lebanon to escape the civil war in Syria, but death caught up with him in Beirut.It was his day off, and as he always did during his free time, the 28-year-old sous-chef left his kitchen to be with his family. On April 8, after playing with his four-month-old daughter, a ritual he never missed, he went to have lunch with a friend and neighbor in Hay al-Sellom, in Beirut’s southern suburbs.On that Wednesday, a series of coordinated Israeli strikes rained down on Beirut, killing over 350 people. One of them struck him down right before the eyes of his father. Some of the lives stolen on April 8 Names and faces of those killed by Israel in its April 8 massacre In 2011, at just 13 years old, the teenager left his hometown of Aleppo, just as the war began to rage, and crossed the border alone to join...