“Two wars in two years, it’s too much!”
Hayat finds it hard to believe. At 50 years old, she finds herself displaced again, like tens of thousands of other Lebanese who have been fleeing Israeli bombings since Monday.
“I sleep in the car, I have nowhere to go, I’m hurting all over,” this resident of the southern suburb of Beirut laments.
Sitting on a plastic chair by the side of a street in downtown Beirut, she nervously lights a cigarette, surrounded by eight family members, including young children.
We can’t take it anymore!
A first military escalation between Hezbollah and the Israeli army occurred in November 2024, after the Lebanese Shiite party opened a front with the state of Israel to support its Palestinian ally, Hamas, in the Gaza Strip.
A truce was reached two months later, but both parties largely ignored it: Israel continued its sporadic strikes against the country, claiming to target Hezbollah, while the latter always refused to disarm.
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