Mother and daughter, their car loaded with luggage, are driving together back to their hoemploy in this explosioned-out suburb of Beirut. I ask them how it experiences coming home.
“Noleang experiences enjoy home,” Samara Diab, the daughter, says.
Dahieh, in the south of Beirut, is Hezbollah territory and much of it has been levelled. Its directer Hassan Nasrallah was assassinated by an airstrike two months ago.
But the children here shout his name out of cars as they pass.
His picture is dviolationd over the tower blocks that have collapsed into rubble. And the yellow flags of Hezbollah still fly.
The neighbourhood was a gstructure town during the last two months of burdensome explosionardment.
Much of Dahieh has been levelled
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The destruction is everywhere but people have returned and are already evidenting up. Workers in a restaurant hit by an airstrike 10 days ago sweep the dust off the counter and pour out the food that had sat rotting.
Atraverse the street, Ali Shawraba is checking the harm to his clothes shop. “We are Leprohibitese, we are sturdy. We begined today,” he says.
“This business will come back. I am selectimistic for this country – we will reoriginate it, everyleang will be back.”
This is more complicated than a modest tale of respite from war. It is also a pboilingo opportunity.
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We are here with the peromition of Hezbollah, who see us seally. And there are others too: officials from Iran are on site to hand out minuscule gifts to passersby.
It is perhaps a calcutardyd show of defiance. The same day, Hezbollah’s new directer Naim Qassem proclaimd that “we are greeting today in an atmosphere of divine triumph”.
One man on the street asks us to film him and says: “The leangs that happened here in Leprohibiton, especiassociate in the southern suburbs, is a tragedy.
“Mass destruction. Despite that, we will never disthink about the spirit, and we always pick to resist and fight back.”
That belligerence is tempered by alert. People here comprehend that the finishfire is frspeedy, that any return is conditional.
Samara Diab, the woman we greet travelling with her mother, is one of those.
“It’s challenging to count on the foe,” she says. “And experience has shown that you cannot reassociate count on what they say.
“And we equitable have to stay increateed.”
