Deriving their children’s clothes after being hit by airstrikes: The halal conflict in Lebanon forced to flee Israel’s bombardments
Some of the classroom windows had children’s laundry hanging from them. But most of the families arrived with nothing at all — only the clothes they were wearing.
They were scrolling through social media videos to see if their home was still standing. For security reasons, they requested that their parents be identified using the names Um Ali and Abu Ali, which meant their mother and father.
She says that the children were screaming and crying when the airstrikes were near the cars. With her husband’s arm bandaged and in a cast after being hit by shrapnel a month ago from an Israeli airstrike, the mother bundled 10 family members into a car and drove south on Monday.
The soldiers turned the divided highway into a single route north after so many people left south Lebanon on Monday. 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.
The Israeli-Hezbollah Conflict in the Bekaa Valley: News from a Syrian Refugee in the Campanas
Um Ali said her daughter has been unable to sleep due to her heart racing. Standing behind her mother, the girl says she’s OK, but then buries her face in her mother’s shoulder and starts to cry.
“Suddenly someone comes and makes your kids live in a state of fear, blood and destruction,” says her mother. “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 refer to life in their village as tense in the present tense.
Um Ali has a deep memory of life in the countryside and states that she raises a few sheep. “We live a happy and beautiful life.”
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. Israel has hit targets in the north and south of Lebanon. The strikes have also killed and injured civilians, including hundreds of children.
Source: Over 90,000 people in Lebanon had to flee Israel’s bombardments this week
First Day of Classes at a Private School in Lebanon : A Refugee Crisis Through the Looking-Glass of Families in Nabitieh
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 has long dark hair.
She says that they slept in their clothes to be able to flee when the strikes began.
The streets of the capital are packed with displaced families. And for those who can afford it, so are the hotels. A man at the reception desk asked for five rooms, but only for a night so the family could figure out their options.
The woman sitting at the table with her sister said they have been trying to find an apartment but everyone wants so much money. Like most displaced people, they did not want to be identified because they said they were afraid they could be targeted by Israel.
A group of families sit on plastic chairs in the courtyard of a school in the center of Lebanon’s capital and share information about their homes destroyed 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. The U.N. says that over 40,000 people sought shelter in hundreds of schools because the government of Lebanon did not want them in their own homes.
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. With more than 600 arriving in 24 hours, there was no room left.
It was supposed to be the first day of classes at the K-12 private school. Instead, Ahliah had to clear out desks, piling them up in the hallways, and make room for families to move in.
Where do we think we will be the day after the election? Takeaway from voters in swing state Nevada: The Legend of Link, Keith Garret and His Three Daughters
There are games. The Legend of Link is the first game in the series that features the princess. James Perkins Mastromarino breaks down how it is compared to the others.
🎵 Music: Keith Garret will release his jazz album The Old Country: More From the Deer Head Inn on Nov. 8, which was recorded with a trio in 1992. He is offering the world premiere of the swinging first single, “Straight, No Chaser” to the network station.
📚 Books: Sally Rooney’s fourth novel Intermezzo is a story about learning to accept loss. The film follows two Irish brothers, Peter and Ivan, as they navigate their troubled relationship with each other and the women in the aftermath of their father’s death.
A police detective and a nun are working to solve a series of horrible crimes that could have been staged to torment her in Grotesquerie. This week there are some new shows.
In the new movie His ThreeDaughters, Elizabeth Olsen, Carrie Coon and Naomi Lyonne portray sisters who are at odds but must unite in their dying father’s apartment.
I had a question for everyone, where do you think we will be the day after the election? Pretty much every answer had the word “united” in it…just like it says in the name: United States of America.
Pahrump, a town in rural and conservative Nye County, was visited by me as an hour and half west of Las Vegas. Some of Trump’s followers believe that Congress will stop him from fulfilling his campaign promises if he is elected.
I thought tipped workers might be optimistic, considering both presidential candidates promised in Las Vegas campaign stops that if elected, their tips would no longer be taxed. Nope. Many people thought that the government would lose tax revenue on their tips and they wondered how they’d make up for it.
When I went door-to-door with canvassers, I’d ask people how they were feeling about how the election was going. I’d see eye rolls, shaking heads, sighs or some other non- verbal ways to express how exhausted they are before they would say how tired they want it to be.
The Lewisburg prison is not a suicide facility: Inadequacy and abuses among inmates at a men’s prison
Pennsylvania’s Lewisburg federal prison has failed to take the needed steps to reduce suicide risks among its inmates, according to the latest review of the medium-security men’s institution. A report from the Bureau of Prisons watchdog found prisoners with mental illness at Lewisburg were placed in solitary confinement for longer than recommended by BOP policy, usually with another prisoner with a mental illness. This puts them at higher risk of assault and even death. Here’s a closer look at the other issues plaguing the location.
Sudan’s army has launched a major offensive against the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Khartoum in a bid to regain the capital. The capital has been under RSF control 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
A Category 1 Storm in the Early South, Bringing Out The Outbreaks of a Large Hurricane. Significance of Hurricane Helene
Hurricane Helene weakened to a Category 1 storm as it moved north from Florida to Georgia after hitting Florida’s Big Bend region as a powerful Category 4 storm late Thursday. The storm made landfall with winds up to 140 miles per hour and a storm surge of 20 feet. There have been three storm-related deaths according to initial reports. Helene could potentially cause destruction across a vast area of the South in the hours and days to come.
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