Like every morning, Ali Abu Khudoud woke up just before dawn on Sunday to perform the fajr prayer. His daily ritual, however, was interrupted when the windows began to rattle and his house shake. As the sound of dozens of low-flying war planes and airstrikes grew louder, it became clear that this was more than the occasional bout of shelling he had gotten used to.
“It was a very hard night and an even harder morning. My daughter woke up and began to call for me. It feels like it’s too near, nobody could sleep,” Abu Khudoud, a shopkeeper in the city of Nabatieh in south Lebanon, said.
