Veronique Black (@vblacktsunami.bsky.social)

Lebanese fear wider war as Hezbollah-Israel attacks escalate For many Lebanese, the strikes between the Hezbollah militia and Israel feel like a return to war. "I took my son and daughter and we fled from our house just before it was destroyed in an Israeli strike last week," Rola Atwi, a 36-year-old mother from the Beirut suburb of Haret Hreik, told DW. Since then, the family has been staying on a sidewalk at a seaside neighborhood in west Beirut. "My daughter has epilepsy and when loud sounds occur, she has seizures," Atwi says. Protecting her children has become her sole priority. "I feel numb… nothing. I just want my daughter to be safe," she said. Lebanon was drawn into the Middle East war last week when the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah started attacking Israel in response to the killing of the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Since then, the situation has escalated on both sides of the Lebanese/Israeli border: Civilians in Israel have been under fire from Hezbollah as well as from Iran, yet civilian casualties in Israel appear limited due to the country's defense systems and shelters. In Lebanon, Israel's attacks have triggered a large-scale humanitarian crisis. According to the Lebanese health authorities, 486 people had... https://www.dw.com/en/lebanon-hezbollah-iran-us-israel-war-humanitarian-crisis/a-76293444