’Dad bought me new stationery, but we left it in our bombed-out house’: Israel’s strikes on Lebanon through a child’s eyes

’Dad bought me new stationery, but we left it in our bombed-out house’: Israel’s strikes on Lebanon through a child’s eyes Eight-year-old Seline Nahleh tells Sputnik her story of leaving the city of Nabatiyeh (located in southern Lebanon) with her parents. She and her parents were incredibly lucky; they happened to be out of their house when a direct airstrike struck their home. Tragically, however, Seline’s aunt did not survive. Left without shelter, the family was forced to leave for the city of Saida. Here they were accommodated in a temporary refugee center, which is located in the Al-Sabbagh school. “We left everything, all our belongings, in Nabatiyeh. Our house was also bombed; my auntie was killed then. Also, there’s a lot of people suffering. And we came here right away, told what had happened to our houses. The house burned down; there was nothing left, and nowhere to return,“ she revealed. Most of all, little Seline would like “people not to die, no one to be sad, and t... Source: Sputnik International
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