Hundreds of families fled their homes in Dahiyeh, a predominantly Shiite suburb of Beirut, after Israel unleashed a series of deadly strikes overnight. The assault killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and intensified the conflict in Lebanon.
, visible to many of the families who had fled their homes there the night before to escape Israel ’s massive bombardment.
Fatima Chahine, a Syrian refugee, slept on the Ramlet al-Bayda public beach in Beirut with her family and hundreds of strangers. The night before she, her husband and their two children had piled onto a motorcycle and raced out of Dahiyeh, with “bombing below us and strikes above us.”The government has opened up schools in Beirut to take in the displaced. But Syrians have reported that some sites turn them away to reserve the few spaces for Lebanese.
Chahine said returning is not an option for her family; she is from an opposition area and so could face reprisals from the Syrian government. A stadium in the seaside neighborhood of Manara owned by the Nejmeh soccer club opened its doors to the displaced, who spent the night sleeping on bleachers.
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