Dar Youssef Beik El Zein in Kfar Roummane, in the Nabatieh district, damaged by Israeli strikes. (Credit: Saeb El Zein)
Yesterday, I experienced two very different Lebanons in a single day. In the morning, I travelled south with my cousin, Brigadier General Mohammad Fehmi, to my village, Kfar Roummane, in the Nabatieh district. In the early evening, I headed to Juwar, in the Metn district, to visit friends from the Samaha family. The distance between the two villages is not major, and yet I felt as though I had travelled between two different countries.We arrived in Nabatieh at around 10 a.m. Despite the extraordinary resilience of its people, you cannot help but feel, and see with your own eyes, that you are entering a war zone. Our first stop was a marble factory. We had ordered around 30 gravestones to replace those destroyed by an Israeli strike on our family’s 70-year-old cemetery, which holds generations of our history. Israeli strikes also caused...
Yesterday, I experienced two very different Lebanons in a single day. In the morning, I travelled south with my cousin, Brigadier General Mohammad Fehmi, to my village, Kfar Roummane, in the Nabatieh district. In the early evening, I headed to Juwar, in the Metn district, to visit friends from the Samaha family. The distance between the two villages is not major, and yet I felt as though I had travelled between two different countries.We arrived in Nabatieh at around 10 a.m. Despite the extraordinary resilience of its people, you cannot help but feel, and see with your own eyes, that you are entering a war zone. Our first stop was a marble factory. We had ordered around 30 gravestones to replace those destroyed by an Israeli strike on our family’s 70-year-old cemetery, which holds generations of our history. Israeli strikes also...
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