LebanonSolidarity.org
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Civilian Resistance in Lebanon
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- Imm Abbas held a funeral last Sunday. We were invited to attend, even though we did not know her or the bereaved personally. Upon receiving us in her modest abode, Imm Abbas’s daughter asked if we wanted to see pictures of the bereaved. Framed, colored photograph-portraits were brought out and displayed, engulfing the surviving family members. The imbalance was pitiful: three members alive to mourn, twelve only present in photographs. Zebqine was the first village bombed by Israelis on July 13. The night of July 12th, Imm Abbas’s son had moved his children and wife from their home on the outskirts of the village to a relative’s home closer to the center, to avoid Israeli fire. The family would leave to Beirut the next morning. The motor of their jeep was warming in the driveway when the Israeli plane dropped its bomb. The three-story apartment-come-refuge was instantly flattened, killing 12 of the 13 people inside. The force of the blast sent their jeep sailing into the field below. In a village of 230 homes, 109, or nearly half, were either completely destroyed or seriously damaged. Out of a population of 2200 persons, only 500 are currently resident in Zebqine, though another 500 spend their days there and leave at night to sleep in shelters elsewhere. Over the past week, we have been able to bring five tanks of non-potable water for cleaning purposes, medications for chronic and urgent care to help in rebuilding the municipality clinic, and a generator to provide electricity to one neighborhood which was not connected to the other extant generators. Towards our goal of investing in the local economy, we bought $900 worth of garments from one clothing factory owned by a village resident to use for clothing rations in other areas.
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