On the ground in a new Lebanon

新黎巴嫩之地上

Today in Focus

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2025-02-20

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Israel’s war has left many Lebanese people contemplating what once seemed unimaginable: is Hezbollah finished? Michael Safi reports from Beirut. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is the Guardian.

  • Today, a return to Lebanon.

  • A few months since the war that changed everything.

  • To your left.

  • All my life I have studied in a school here in Airport Road.

  • So when I came here, I wanted to cover the hits that happened.

  • It was like a zombie apocalypse.

  • There was no one on the streets.

  • There was a lot of smoke.

  • You couldn't breathe.

  • Literally, like, my lungs stopped working and, like, they hit weapon depots as well.

  • So the type of smoke that was covering this whole area was unbearable.

  • So what the.

  • A couple of weeks ago, I was in a car with Hassan Harfoush, a Lebanese journalist.

  • By the way, I can just see this.

  • There's a massive crater in the middle of the ground just on the road to the airport.

  • He was driving me through Dahya, the southern suburbs of Beirut where he lives, an area that,

  • alongside Gaza, has suffered one of the most intense aerial bombing campaigns of this century.

  • Hassan lived through it.

  • Were you ever there when your neighborhood was being bombed?