Beirut blast: Picking up the pieces of a shattered city
Despite their trauma, Eddie and Yara Bitar have vowed to stay put and rebuild Eddie Bitar takes me into his apartment. Without windows. Strewn with the shattered debris. Deep cracks zigzag along every wall. He steps over rubble and wrestles the front door aside. It is smeared red and he points it out: "This is the blood of my brother." We walk in. His wife Yara recounts the day she can never forget, and weeps. This country was already wracked with crisis; people's savings and hopes were evaporating. Now grief and rage are Lebanon's new ...
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