The refugees, who have fled the south and the southern suburbs of Beirut, have taken refuge in towns to the north…many of them finding shelter at the public schools that opened their doors to them across Lebanon. Some of the people in the southern suburbs of Beirut, “Dahieh” as it is called, fled the suburbs as it was and still is one of Israel’s main targets; because a few blocks are Hezbollah strongholds with their TV station located there as well. It is predominantly Shiite, populated by Shiite’s who fled the South when Israel invaded in 1982.
Many of them fled to a nearby suburb, Shiyyah, that was considered a safe area as there were no strongholds or “tactical positions”. A missile attack on this residential area took out a building and a half killing over 29 civilians and injuring around 75 (count as of Aug 9th has increased to 40+ dead).
The attack was spurred apparently by 6 shots that appear to have been fired by an over zealous youngster on a roof of a building trying to shoot down one of the many Israeli spy drones that have carpeted Lebanon. Israel demolished a building and a half because their UNMANNED spy drone MAY have been shot at (with a rifle presumably) by a youngster in a residential area. And certain countries still maintain that the Israel is “defending itself”.
Here are some before and after images of the suburb called “Dahieh
BEFORE
AFTER
