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There was bombing in [the] al-Sallem neighbourhood. We stayed for a while there and my family fled,
I’m not scared for my own life anymore. I’m just scared of what awaits the generation ahead of me,
They are going to do the same thing here that they did in Gaza,
Israeli planes were all over the sky and we saw them drop bombs in front of us. I often had to get out of the vehicle to help clear the debris and stones obstructing our car,
My mother was confused and delirious, but I helped her up and told her that we had to run. I knew more bombs were coming,
Dina told Al Jazeera from a cafe in Hamra, a bustling neighbourhood in central Beirut that has absorbed thousands of displaced people from across Lebanon I didn’t rescue him. God rescued him,
said Hamada, a bald man with a nest of wrinkles around his eyes A ground invasion will compound the problem,
said Karim Emile Bitar, a professor of international relations at Saint Joseph University in Beirut When [Israel escalated the war last week], I think that maybe it became safer for my uncle to stay in the village than to risk fleeing on the roads,
What’s worrisome is what will Israel do when it does invade? Will they begin dynamiting homes as they did in Gaza? In other words, do they make the temporary humanitarian crisis a permanent one by ensuring that nobody can return [to their homes]?”
God help people. At the time of a strike, people lose it and don’t know what to do,
he said while dropping off food and water in remote areas We found a chicken on the road,
Hamza explained in another clip Come here, come here! I got you food,
Hamza called to a dog hiding behind a fence in one of his online videos I hope someone can take some load off my shoulders,
Hamza said as he picked up an elderly stray dog off the street and into his car I opened bags of food and left them water. I’m relying on God,
said Hamza as he spread food hundreds of meters away from the shelter he runs, in case the dogs need to escape the facility when airstrikes come too close At least unleash your dogs,
he pleads with residents in his videos This nice man called me, crying. They (the family) left the dogs behind the fence, and they couldn’t take them,
As long as I can reach the dogs and leave them food and water, I will not leave,
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,
The situation we're living in is very difficult... people are dying,
If Iran had wanted to help, they would have helped a long time ago. Everyone has abandoned us and now Iran has, too."