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️ ️ ️A father’s burden: protecting the family through the chaos of Lebanon’s bombardment “We’ve heard the hardest bombs these past two weeks,” Jaafar Zalzali, who lives with his wife and five children in Beirut near the devastated Dahieh district, told Sputnik. Even though his family lives in a slightly safer area of the city, they have witnessed every heart-stopping Israeli air raid that has pounded the Lebanese capital in recent days. “I am a human being. Of course, I get scared too,” Jaafar says. “It’s impossible to move around Lebanon right now. We don’t know what’s waiting on the roads. We’re living in constant fear—air raid sirens, bombs falling from all directions.” Jaafar has prepared an evacuation plan, ready for when the time comes, but his family is paralyzed by trauma. “Maybe one day we will move all together out of this area when it would not be safe enough,” he acknowledges, with his voice heavy under a burden no parent should bear. As a father, Jaafar feels it’s... Source: Sputnik International
