I was outside today when thousands of leaflets began fluttering down from the sky. It was a warning from the Israeli military that three new areas of the southern suburbs will now be targetted. It’s amazing how beautiful a sky full of paper looks – I’ve never seen it before. More amazing perhaps given the ominous message that paper bears. Though life continues here, days like today remind everyone that this place is still a war zone. Shops close early, people clear the streets long before dark. And even though Israeli planes hit Beirut during the day – there was a reported attack by a helicopter on either an antennae or a light house today, depending on who you ask – the night brings with it its own special sort of fear. It really is something primal, I suppose. I feel it even here, far enough away from the areas being routinely bombed to be safe. I cannot imagine how it feels further south, where they are waiting tonight for more than paper to fall from the skies above Beirut.
August 10th, 2006 | by David in Humanitarian Aid, Travel
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