Saad al-Zein returned to inspect the family home for the first time on July 3, after it was destroyed by an Israeli strike on May 9. (Credit: Téa Ziadé/L’Orient-Le Jour)
It’s a road lined with eucalyptus trees that winds its way through the heart of the village of Kfar Roummane. From a distance, on the right, lies a pile of ruins and what remains of the garden of Aleppo pines that used to shade the property from the sky. Saad al-Zein gets out of his car and heads toward what was once the entrance, without a word. It’s the first time he has returned to his land in southern Lebanon since his house was destroyed. Read more How Israel razed entire villages in southern Lebanon It is July 3. Fifty-five days have passed since an Israeli fighter jet pulverized his villa. On the morning of May 9, he was on the phone with a member of the Kfar Roummane Civil Defense. Attached to the cemetery, the mosque and the husseiniyeh, his house had already been slightly damaged at the end of April when those buildings...
It’s a road lined with eucalyptus trees that winds its way through the heart of the village of Kfar Roummane. From a distance, on the right, lies a pile of ruins and what remains of the garden of Aleppo pines that used to shade the property from the sky. Saad al-Zein gets out of his car and heads toward what was once the entrance, without a word. It’s the first time he has returned to his land in southern Lebanon since his house was destroyed. Read more How Israel razed entire villages in southern Lebanon It is July 3. Fifty-five days have passed since an Israeli fighter jet pulverized his villa. On the morning of May 9, he was on the phone with a member of the Kfar Roummane Civil Defense. Attached to the cemetery, the mosque and the husseiniyeh, his house had already been slightly damaged at the end of April when those...
