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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Zecharias Zelalem

‘No place to go’: As Israel bombs Lebanon, African migrants feel abandoned

A woman from Sudan holds her newborn baby in a temporary shelter for migrants at St Joseph Church in Beirut, Lebanon [Louisa Gouliamaki/Reuters]

Soreti*, an Ethiopian migrant domestic worker living in Lebanon, says she feels lucky to be alive. She was not home when Israeli air strikes struck buildings in her neighbourhood in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre on September 23.

“It was a massacre,” the 34-year-old said from a private home where she and dozens of fellow African migrants, including children, are now sheltering. “They just hit apartment buildings where old people and children live. I’m OK, I think I lost some hearing, though. Children here are scared to sleep from nightmares,” she told Al Jazeera.

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