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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Justin Salhani

As Israel attacks, displaced Lebanese people come together in Beirut

A family who fled their village in southern Lebanon and took refuge at a school turned temporary shelter in the capital Beirut on September 24, 2024 [Anwar Amro/AFP]

Beirut, Lebanon – Beirut is filling up, possibly way past its capacity, as thousands of people stream into its neighbourhoods, seeking refuge from Israel’s unpredictable air raids.

The attacks began in the south and the Bekaa, with Beirut’s southern suburbs also sustaining strikes. But then the scope of the attack expanded, targeting: areas in the Chouf and Kesserwen, a predominantly Christian region with a small Shia population.

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