As she puts milk cartons on the ladder, Zahra smiles nervously. “Everything is fine here, there is no problem in this area,” says a young Lebanese banker, hesitantly. He has already managed to clean the dust from the shelves, but, at the door of his small shop, many gray particles still float in the air. In front of his business in the mixed areas of Basta to BeirutThe rubble of the apartment building turned into ruins contradicts his brief statement. Zahra, like many others, is afraid to speak. The war Suddenly it has reached their streets, destroyed their houses, robbed their people without them saying anything to stop it. Three weeks after the increase of the campaign bombing Israel on LebanonHebrew planes kill many people ordinary people with the ulterior motive of creating communal strife in the country.
“We don’t know who it is, maybe one of them is coming from here Hezbollah and this puts us all at risk,” Elie Malouli, a homeowner in the Beirutian Christian neighborhood of Mar Mikhael, revealed to EL PERIÓDICO. It’s thousands of people. not transferred who have arrived in the Lebanese capital in recent weeks fleeing violence in southern and eastern Lebanon. It was there that Israel’s violent bombing began, killing a thousand Lebanese in just a few days. But now, Israel it doesn’t discriminate. This Monday, the northern city of Zgharta, at a distance of more than 164 kilometers from forwardwas the purpose of violence Hebrew At least 18 people died and four were injured in the accident shoot down the plane An Israeli attack on a house that housed refugees.
Suspicion of refugees
Currently, most of the houses in Lebanon are occupied by homeless people. About 1.2 million Lebanese, one-sixth of the population, have left their homes in a country of only 10,542 square kilometers. Many flocked to Beirut, which was now flooded. For some, that escape did not save their lives. As a family of five members who, together with three others who received them, died last Thursday in a powerful explosion of a shelter in Basta, in front of the Zahra store. “I just want to live a normal life, work and come home, work and come home,” Hani, a middle-class businessman, told this newspaper. His shop, completely pitch black, is twelve meters away from where he attacked. “We have nothing to do with this war, why are you attacking us?”
An increase in the number of civilian deaths of the last days are taking place in areas far away from Hezbollah’s old strongholds. Both inside Beirut and in central and northern Lebanon music he is already running. The escalation of violence coincides with threats made by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahulast week. “Christianswater, Muslims“You, Sunnis and Shiites, are suffering because of Hezbollah’s pointless war against Israel,” he appealed to the already divided Lebanese “You have a chance to save Lebanon before it falls into the abyss of a long war destruction y suffering similar to what we are seeing in Gaza,” he concluded. class conflict.
Barbed wire and fences
A simple trip to Beirut shows that the relationship between Lebanon and Lebanon has ended quickly. In Christian communitieslandlords directly refuse to rent their empty houses to refugees from the southern suburbs of Beirut called Dahiyeh. There, the bombing of Israel has turned into a neighborhood for several days. At the same time, the places where these people have gathered because of the flooding of the shelters provided by the Government are being fenced off. A small garden in the central part of the Plaza de los Mártires, where many people slept outside in the early days. refugees Syrians are workers do not move from Daiyehit is now surrounded by barbed wire, just as it is around the Mohamed al Amin mosque.
With these goals, Israel seems to have revived the doctrine born in Beirut 18 years ago. During the 2006 war, Dahiyeh served as Hezbollah’s headquarters and faced several terrorist attacks. Soldiers Israel. Then, a Dahiyeh teachingand military tactics Israel that includes the destruction of civilian infrastructure to force authoritarian regimes. During the 34 days of war, you are in a very difficult situation violation of international lawThe Israeli army destroyed or severely damaged all civilian infrastructure in the country, including the airport, water reservoirs, sewage and electricity, gas stations, schools, hospitals and clinics, while some 30,000 houses. Almost twenty years later, this brutality construction Lebanon is again trying to incite people to attack Hezbollah.
Accused of sowing internal divisions
Although there is a small chance of this happening, there is a growing fear that it will happen chaosin the face of serious problems and decrease of help. The Lebanese army also accused Israel of sowing internal divisions, and urged its people to “protect the unity of the country and refrain from engaging in activities that could harm paz At this critical and critical moment in the country’s history, the events of the past month have left Lebanese people with lasting emotions. collective insecurity and cha disbelief to the unknown. Any foreigner is cause for suspicion after the penetration of Israel’s secret services into the impenetrable heart of Hezbollah.
Last Wednesday the Lebanese Army arrested two Syrians suspected of being recruited by Israel. Last week a German journalist was kicked out after sitting on an Israeli television station in Beirut. Everyone in Lebanon is suspected of collaborating with the enemy. A woman, whose house was destroyed after Israeli bombardment on Thursday, admits that she is tired of talking to the media. “What do you want me to explain?” “Look around you,” he ordered at the ruins of the apartment building he could see from his window. “Everything is gone, there is nothing now, we are well, thank God, but our neighbors are dead; what should we do and look at the opening that reveals the interior of his house?”
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