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Jan 15, 2025 | 
today.lorientlejour.com | Amelia Hankins
The three former FPM MPs, Simon Abi Ramia, Ibrahim Kanaan and Alain Aoun, also met with Nawaf Salam. "The prime minister-designate has the will to get in touch with everyone and for everyone to be part of the government," Kanaan said after their meeting.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
today.lorientlejour.com | Amelia Hankins
My balcony looks north, away from the bombings. But my ears are trained south. I usually stop listening to music when the sun starts to go down because that’s when — we joke — “their shift starts.”I’m lucky that it’s just the sounds. I suffer from my upstairs neighbor putting something heavy down, and from the garbage truck lifting dumpsters and the sound they make when they’re clumsily placed back on the ground.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
today.lorientlejour.com | Amelia Hankins
Hezbollah, the Amal Movement and several wealthy individuals are covering the van fares of people who have been forced to leave the South — which Israeli bombs are steadily destroying — but who do not have the financial means to do so. L'Orient Today / By Amelia Hankins and Ghadir Hamadi, 28 October 2024 17:57 On Sept. 24, in a bid to escape a suddenly and rapidly widening war, Mahasen Deeb took her five children to a bus stop in Sour, hoping to find a way to Beirut.
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
today.lorientlejour.com | Amelia Hankins
When the Israeli jets bombed Hezbollah's headquarters in Beirut's southern suburbs on Friday, the force of it was so strong that residents on the far side of the capital thought it was their own homes that were under attack.In its determination to...
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
today.lorientlejour.com | Ghadir Hamadi |Amelia Hankins
The school day started out relatively normally — as normal as can be after a week like the last. But, by early afternoon, thousands of students had been sent home, classes canceled, and schools transformed into shelters for people fleeing a rage of Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon and the Bekaa — around 800, as the day draws on — and eventually a strike on Beirut's southern suburbs. "Today was very dramatic," says Malak Hamdan, a sixth-grade student in Beirut.
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Sep 22, 2024 | 
today.lorientlejour.com | Muntasser Abdallah |Amelia Hankins
Hezbollah's announcements did not mention the assassination of several of its elite military commanders, killed on Friday afternoon in an Israeli bombardment of Beirut's southern suburbs, which killed several civilians and wounded dozens. Also, the party does not mention the pager and walkie-talkie explosions across Lebanon on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
lorientlejour.com | Amelia Hankins
Les combats en Syrie se sont intensifiés, plongeant les habitants dans les pires conditions humanitaires depuis le début de la guerre civile il y a plus de 13 ans, selon le dernier rapport de la Commission d’enquête de l’ONU sur la Syrie publié mardi. « Les dynamiques mortelles profondément ancrées ravivent à nouveau de nouvelles vagues d’hostilités », a déclaré Paulo Pinheiro, président de la Commission, au cours d’une conférence de presse.
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
today.lorientlejour.com | Amelia Hankins
The U.N. Syria Commission of Inquiry reports that the humanitarian needs in Syria are the highest they’ve been since the war started more than 13 years ago. L'Orient Today / By Amelia Hankins, 13 September 2024 21:07 Fighting in Syria has intensified, plunging residents into the worst humanitarian conditions since the civil war erupted over 13 years ago, according to the latest report from the U.N. Syria Commission of Inquiry released on Tuesday.
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Jun 16, 2024 | 
today.lorientlejour.com | Amelia Hankins |Matthieu Karam
The threat of toxic materials in Lebanon became a particularly sensitive subject after the country suffered one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history. The Beirut port blast on Aug. 4, 2020, was the result of mishandled ammonium nitrate, incorrectly stored and neglected despite warnings filed directly with the Public Works Ministry.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
lorientlejour.com | Amelia Hankins
Tout le monde passe par ce moment-déclic (ou plusieurs) durant l’adolescence où on a le sentiment de « sortir du brouillard » de l’enfance et d’entrer dans le « monde réel », de sortir d’un kaléidoscope de sensations et d’entrer dans une forme plus définie de soi. Ce passage peut s’avérer douloureux, difficile, excitant. Chez les enfants de la guerre, ce déclic prend une toute autre dimension.
