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BEIRUT: Displaced people gather on Beirut’s Ramleit Al Baida beach turned into a makeshift refugee camp, on Oct 1, 2024. -- AFP
BEIRUT: Displaced people gather on Beirut’s Ramleit Al Baida beach turned into a makeshift refugee camp, on Oct 1, 2024. -- AFP

As Zionist jets hit Beirut, people flee to sleep on beach

BEIRUT: The repeated blasts in Beirut’s southern suburbs where Zionist entity has been carrying out airstrikes this week have driven Zeina Nazha and her young daughter to camp on a city beach seeking safety from the war in Lebanon. She and some others from those suburbs, known as Dahiyeh, a stronghold of Zionist entity’s foe Hezbollah, are sleeping on blankets either under the open sky or in tents and other makeshift shelters with no safer place to go.

Zionist entity’s stepped-up military campaign in Lebanon over the past two weeks has driven a million people from their homes in the south, in Beirut and in the Bekaa valley in the east, according to the Lebanese government. Zionist entity says its campaign is necessary to make its own northern regions safe from Hezbollah rocket fire and allow thousands of its citizens home.

“There was bombing in Al-Sallem neighborhood. We stayed for a while there and my family fled,” said Nazha. “The situation we’re living in is very difficult... people are dying,” she added.

She and her daughter spent a night sleeping on the corniche, the seaside walk around central areas of Beirut that in peaceful times is a hub of city life, filled with families strolling or sitting and eating. The government and private or charitable bodies have set up numerous shelters in schools and other facilities to accommodate people displaced by the fighting. But Nazha said all those she had visited were full up.

Nearby, Mohamed Terkmene, a Syrian man living in Lebanon who has also been displaced by the conflict, said he had been sleeping at the beach for four days. He said soldiers had come to tell him and his neighbors to evacuate their Dahiyeh homes. “We are not able to sleep and we don’t know for how long we will stay here. A month, two months, a week or two, until this war is resolved,” he said. — Reuters

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