Israel has threatened to return Lebanon ‘to the stone age’ if war once again breaks out with Hezbollah, and the signs from the border between the two countries have grown ominous
Mohamad Chehab looks out from a shawarma restaurant to the apartment building where his father owns a sixth-floor home in south Beirut. In 2006, that building was among the first to be destroyed when Israel went to war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants, whose headquarters was located nearby.
“If something happens, I’m going to take this last look at it, because I don’t think I’m going to see it any more,” he said. It has been a week since Hamas, the Iran-backed group that rules the Gaza Strip, launched a co-ordinated assault on Israel, the first salvo in a war that has now killed at least 3,200.
But some of the seats on departing aircraft were occupied by people unwilling to stay in a country they worry may soon be at war. “We’re scared,” said Joey Akl, a Grade-12 student who was leaving with his mother and younger sister. The trio were bound for Kuwait, “because of the situation right now with potential war,” he said.
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