Beirut businesses struggle to stay afloat under Israeli raids
A woman collects belongings in an apartment amid destruction in a residential area where an Israeli airstrike killed 9 people the day before, according to Lebanese officials, on November 7, 2024 in Baalbek, Lebanon.
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Lina al-Khalil has fled her south Beirut home to escape escalating Israeli attacks on Hezbollah, but she still returns daily to the bombarded area to keep the family business running."It's more important than my house," said the pharmacist, in her 50s, of the business she inherited from her father in Haret Hreik, a southern suburb of the Lebanese capital where Iran-backed Hezbollah militants hold sway.Whenever the Israeli military issues a warning to evacuate before a s...