Israel launches largest attack on central Beirut and orders new evacuations in the south

Mariam Ghuel, 31, has been fleeing the bombs for eleven months without success. On October 11, three days after Hezbollah launched its first shells at Israeli targets and the crossfire on the border began, she fled from Mays al-Yabl, her small town in the southeast that almost touches Israel, to Dahieh, the large Shia suburb of Beirut that she left “on the day they bombed so much,” September 24, when Israeli airstrikes killed 558 people in just a few hours. She ended up in a school converted into a shelter in Bashura, a neighborhood in the heart of Beirut considered safe and not far from the government headquarters. It was there that, around midnight, she heard the bombing of a building a few dozen meters away, the deadliest - with a provisional death toll of seven - of the two attacks that Israel has launched against the Lebanese capital since it began its offensive last month, which is now accompanied by a ground invasion and new evacuation orders.

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