Published on November 27, 2024 at 5:24 p.m. / Modified on November 27, 2024 at 7:50 p.m.
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Tuesday at 6 p.m., when the Israeli army has just bombed 20 targets in the space of two minutes, new announcements are coming. For the first time since the start of the war, the Hamra district, once the cultural heart of the city, finds itself in the enemy’s sights and its inhabitants ordered to evacuate. “It was panic. Everyone started running and taking refuge in front of the American University,” says Yassin, a local merchant, the next morning. In an emergency, the university then decided to open its campus to students, former students and their parents seeking shelter.
Next to Yassin’s shop is a school converted into a reception center for displaced people. “Here, families are used to having to flee. They were told that they had to leave, and everyone left the place in a very disciplined manner, like soldiers,” reports Saher. This center manager recounts how the displaced people organized stocks of bottled water and worried about taking blankets for the children… before returning to school once the strike fell on a currency exchange center, located below premises of the Lebanese Swiss Bank. Saher admits to having spent the night outside in the rain, as a safety measure.
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