‘From one catastrophe to another’: Lebanese Australians look on in horror as relatives flee homes

Dr Saad Ramadan says there is a ‘clear disparity in how the [Australian] government acknowledges the suffering of different communities’. Photograph: Blake Sharp-Wiggins/The Guardian

For Dr Saad Ramadan, the holy period of Ramadan should be a time of spiritual reflection. But he is worried about his family in Lebanon, who face “chaos and fear”.

In the early hours of Monday morning, his elderly parents and five siblings fled their village in southern Lebanon – under “indiscriminate Israeli attacks”.