Israel says it struck Hezbollah’s headquarters
The children of a Lebanese refugee fleeing Israel’s bombardments this week: “Migrants cling onto a family in Lebanon,” said Um Ali
Childrens laundry hung from some classroom windows to dry. But most of the families arrived with nothing at all — only the clothes they were wearing.
A couple looking at social media videos to see if their house is still standing. They asked to be identified as parents of Ali, using the namesUm Ali and Abu Ali which meant his mother and father.
She says the children were screaming and crying as the airplanes bombed next to their cars. The mother got her family into a car on Monday with her husband and their bandaged limbs after he was hit by an Israeli air strike a month ago.
There were so many people fleeing south Lebanon on Monday, Lebanese soldiers turned the divided highway into a single route north. Normally it takes an hour to drive 50 miles, but panicked families crammed into any vehicle they could find and it took 7 or 8 hours.
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Um Ali says in addition to not talking, her daughter has been unable to sleep and her heart races. Standing behind her mother, the girl says she’s OK, but then buries her face in her mother’s shoulder and starts to cry.
Her mother says that someone came and made her kids live in a state of fear and destruction. “Nobody accepts living like that — to be humiliated and see their lives torn apart.”
It was too early for a sense of loss to kick in. Abu Ali, a construction worker, and his wife refer to life in their border village in the present tense.
The face of Um Ali, her face for a moment filled with memory, said she grow everything and raise a few sheep. We live a wonderful life and have lots of fun.
The Israeli military says it is targeting Iran-backed Hezbollah, designated by the U.S. and other countries as a terrorist group, and its weapons and rocket launchers in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa region to the northeast. In the south of Lebanon, Israel has hit targets. The strikes have also killed and injured civilians, including hundreds of children.
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Behind the school, a few boys kick around a blue ball on a concrete soccer field. In the courtyard, two sisters from the border town of Nabitieh sit on a low wall. The younger is 18 — her nails recently manicured in a bright purple. Her sister is dark in appearance and has her hair styled.
“It was so scary — not a little, a lot,” she says, adding they slept in their clothes when the strikes began during the night to be able to flee early the next morning.
The streets of the capital are packed with displaced families. For those who can afford, so are the hotels. At the reception desk of one, a man asked for five rooms — but only for a night until the family figure out their options.
A woman and her sister are sitting at one table, talking about how hard it is to find an apartment. They were afraid that they could be targeted by Israel, so they did not want to be identified.
BEIRUT — Around the concrete courtyard of Ahliah School in the center of Lebanon’s capital, families perch on plastic chairs, sharing news of what houses they’ve heard have been destroyed in their villages near the southern border with Israel.
Many fleeing the south took refuge in Lebanon with relatives or looked for apartments to rent. But according to the U.N., about 40,000 of them sought shelter in more than 200 schools, which the Lebanese government asked to accommodate displaced people.
Cars full of tired looking passengers pulled up outside of the Aheliah School on Tuesday. The aid official told them to go to other schools. There was no room left with more than 600 arriving in 24 hours.
There was supposed to be the first day of classes at the private school. Instead, Ahliah had to clear out desks, piling them up in the hallways, and make room for families to move in.
Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and the resurgent of the conflict in Lebanon after the last war between the United Nations and the United States
Netanyahu told the UN that he would continue to degrade Hezbollah until Israel achieved its goals.
The last Israel-Hezbollah war in 2006 caused destruction in parts of Lebanon and has people there fearing a repeat. They fear that Lebanon could suffer a lot like Gaza because of Israel’s campaign against Hamas.
At least 25 people were killed in Israeli strikes early Friday, Health Minister Firass Abiad said, bringing the death toll in Lebanon this week to more than 720. He said there were dozens of women and children dead.
