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Lebanon's July War
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Reconstruction's strange bedfellows: Sectarian divisions erode in the rubble of Lebanon
Abdullah Hassan Nasrallah proudly displayed a check for $11,000 to repair his home, which was damaged in last summer's war between Israel and Hezbollah. The money came not from the elected Lebanese government in Beirut, nor Jihad al Binaa, Hezbollah's construction firm, nor even Iran, Hezbollah's strategic Shiite ally. It came from Qatar, a Sunni Gulf state that hosts a major U.S. military base and maintains trade relations with Israel. |
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As the light began to fade on the ancient flank of the biblical Mount Hermon, near Lebanon's southeastern border with Israel, Butros Tawfic gazed across the valley over which the Israeli soldiers and tanks had advanced on his town and made a promise to himself.
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Fear and defiance among few civilians left to face Israeli onslaught
On the road north out of Tyre, past three meter deep craters filled with mangled cars and a cattle pen jammed with dead or dying cows left to starve after their terrified owner fled, a few cars and minibuses carrying the last families to flee the ongoing Israeli bombardment of south Lebanon speed along.
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Across rusty corrugated roofs held down with car tyres, at the east end of Abu Hassan Salame street where goats and children pick their way through piles of rotting waste, Mahmoud Kallam points to the place where 24 years ago the far right Christian militias of the Lebanese Phalange party began their slaughter of hundreds of defenceless Palestinians.
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Hospitals struggle to treat injured as residents flee Beirut suburb
After the shock wave of the first Israeli missile strike had thrown her out of bed, Madein Nuha al-Din took her screaming granddaughter, brushed off the shattered glass from their ruined apartment in Beirut’s southern suburbs and headed for her local hospital to help treat the wounded.
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