In Beirut's southern suburbs, the cost of "victory" is devastation. Some residents agree with Hezbollah's claim of a 'divine victory' against Israel, while others are furious with the group for getting involved in the conflict. Hezbollah flags still fly around Dahiyeh and the group's operatives are everywhere, sitting on plastic chairs on street corners and patrolling on scooters. The locals …
On the streets of Beirut, Hezbollah supporters are reacting in one of two ways to their leader's death: denial or defiance. "Israel made a big mistake," Ali, a Hezbollah militant from Beirut's Chyah district, said on Sunday. A man covers his face with a portrait of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during a protest in the city of Sidon in Lebanon's …
When Manahel Rammel looks at videos of her home, she cannot believe what she has left behind. Ms Rammel and her family fled their village of Adaisseh in Lebanon's south to avoid Israeli air strikes and artillery fire, reprisals for attacks in Israel by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Overall, nearly 100,000 Lebanese have been displaced by Hezbollah's conflict with …
Firas Nabulsi remembers dancing in drag under a rain of glitter, rose petals cascading from beneath his wig, the Beirut nightclub crowd cheering as he lip-synched to a Whitney Houston song. The blast destroyed his home in Beirut's Mar Mikhael, along with the queer-friendly clubs in the city's most accepting neighbourhood. The Beirut neighbourhood of Mar Mikhael was a thriving, …
I'll never forget the sight of a white cloud forming like a mushroom in the sky before turning a deep red colour. The blast damaged buildings across the capital and shattered glass in many nearby neighbourhoods. For those that had been near the blast and escaped with minor injures, they wanted to return back home and check on their loved …