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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ruth Michaelson in Beirut

‘The mosque was closed but the nightclub opened its doors’: bombed-out families find shelter in Beirut venue

Beirut’s Skybar nightclub, left, is now providing shelter, right, to hundreds of Lebanese families displaced by Israeli airstrikes.
Beirut’s Skybar nightclub, left, is now providing shelter, right, to hundreds of Lebanese families displaced by Israeli airstrikes. Composite: Getty images/Reuters

Inside the cavernous black walls of Beirut’s most exclusive after-hours club, two people are asleep on sofas tucked under the DJ booth. Beds fill the section normally used for bottle service, and piles of blankets are piled high on tables around the dancefloor.

Outside the guest entrance to the hulking venue is a family who fled rural southern Lebanon camps. Now their goat is chewing leaves from a tree branch that supports a washing line and a makeshift kitchen.

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