The tragedy of Lebanon: When a soldier’s vehicle crashed into Israel, a family in Lebanon flees Israel’s bombardments
Children’s laundry hung from the windows in the classroom. Most of the families arriving had nothing more than clothes on.
One couple sat scrolling through social media videos to try to see whether their home was still standing. They asked to be identified as the parents of their oldest son Ali by using the names Um Ali and Abu Ali, which mean his mother and father.
The children were screaming and crying because the airstrikes were right next to their cars. A week after her husband was hit by an Israeli airstrike, the mother took 10 people into a car and drove south.
The divided highway into south Lebanon was turned into a single route by the soldiers. A 50-mile drive which normally would have taken an hour stretched in seven or eight hours, as panicked families crammed into any vehicle they could find.
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Um Ali says her daughter has not been able to sleep because of her heart problems. The girl claims to be ok but then puts her face in her mothers shoulder and starts to cry.
Her mother says her kids are in a state of fear and destruction when someone comes. “Nobody accepts living like that — to be humiliated and see their lives torn apart.”
It was too soon for the sense of loss that follows displacement to kick in. Abu Ali and his wife talked about life in their village in the present tense.
“I grow everything and raise a few sheep,” adds Um Ali, her face for a moment radiant with the memory of life in the countryside. “We live a happy and beautiful life.”
The militant group is still reeling from unprecedented attacks recently, including explosions of thousands of its pagers and walkie-talkies last week that killed dozens of people, including children, and injured more than 3,500 others, according to Lebanese health officials. The Israeli government hasn’t confirmed or denied whether it was responsible for the detonation of the devices.
Source: Over 90,000 people in Lebanon had to flee Israel’s bombardments this week
The First Day of Classes at the Ahliah School: An Unified Approach to Lebanon’s Disdisplaced Families and a Center for Education and Human Rights
A few boys kick around a blue ball on a concrete soccer field behind the school. Two sisters from Nabitieh sit on a wall in the courtyard. The younger is 18 — her nails recently manicured in a bright purple. Her sister, 20, has long dark hair that is carefully styled.
She said they only slept in their clothes when the strikes started, so they could escape early the next morning.
The streets of the capital are packed with displaced families. The hotels are also for those who can afford it. A man at the reception desk of one asked for five rooms to be used by his family for a night while they figure out their options.
“We have been trying to find an apartment but everyone now wants so much money, or six months in advance,” says a woman, sitting with her sister at one table. Like most displaced people, they did not want to be identified because they said they were afraid they could be targeted by Israel.
The families sitting on plastic chairs have heard that houses have been destroyed in their villages near the southern border with Israel.
Many Lebanese fleeing the south took refuge with relatives in Beirut and other places, or searched for apartments to rent. According to the UN, over 40,000 of them sought shelter in more than 200 schools, which the government of Lebanon asked to accommodate.
Outside the metal gates of the century-old Ahliah School cars full of exhausted-looking passengers pulled up on Tuesday. An aid official waved them on to other schools serving as temporary shelters. There wasn’t room left after more than 600 arrived in a single day.
It was supposed to be the first day of classes at the K-12 private school. Ahliah had to clear out desks and put them in the hallways so families would be able to move in.
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Sudan’s army has launched a major offensive against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum in a bid to regain the capital. The RSF has controlled the capital for more than a year. Millions have been displaced since the beginning of the war, marking the worst displacement and hunger crises in the world.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to make his case with the United Nations today as he continues to reject a U.S.-backed Lebanon cease-fire proposal. This week at the U.N., world leaders have been calling for cease-fires in Gaza in Lebanon. More than 90,000 people in Lebanon have fled their homes amid Israel’s attacks this week.
Source: Hurricane Helene batters the South. And, takeaways from voters in swing state Nevada
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