Women hold up portraits of Hezbollah fighters killed by the Israeli army, on April 21, 2026, during a collective funeral in Kfar Sir, southern Lebanon. (Credit: Mohammad Yassine/L'Orient-Le Jour)
It is a Thursday like any other in a Beirut café. The terrace is packed. Baristas move frantically behind the counter. Students and remote workers sit glued to their laptops. Inside sits Lynn, 22, displaced from Beirut’s southern suburbs. To her right is Sami, 30, originally from the southern town of Shamaa and now living in Sour. Next to him sits Ali, from Nabatieh Fawqa.Lynn has still not returned to Beirut’s southern suburbs. Sami lost his apartment in Sour and cannot go back to his village, located below the so-called “yellow line” inside an area occupied by the Israeli army. Ali tried twice to return home, but the relentless bombardment in the Nabatieh district eventually crushed his resolve. War thumbnails Green, yellow, and red, or who’s actually living through the war Tens of thousands — perhaps more — within Lebanon’s...
It is a Thursday like any other in a Beirut café. The terrace is packed. Baristas move frantically behind the counter. Students and remote workers sit glued to their laptops. Inside sits Lynn, 22, displaced from Beirut’s southern suburbs. To her right is Sami, 30, originally from the southern town of Shamaa and now living in Sour. Next to him sits Ali, from Nabatieh Fawqa.Lynn has still not returned to Beirut’s southern suburbs. Sami lost his apartment in Sour and cannot go back to his village, located below the so-called “yellow line” inside an area occupied by the Israeli army. Ali tried twice to return home, but the relentless bombardment in the Nabatieh district eventually crushed his resolve. War thumbnails Green, yellow, and red, or who’s actually living through the war Tens of thousands — perhaps more — within...
