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...friends and family at home think it would be a terrible mistake to go,” Granick wrote in an e-mail. “It is not difficult to imagine the varied directions this crisis might take, and that could include damage to the Israeli international airport, could include suicide bombings in Jerusalem...
...Thursday morning we awoke to the news that Israeli aircraft had attacked Beirut International Airport at 6 a.m. that morning. My uncle told our entire family we had to get out that day or risk being trapped by an Israeli attack. We were going to my uncle’s newly built house high in the Shouf Mountains...
...convoy. I did not know it at the time, but apparently one of the bus drivers got so nervous [that] he just pulled over and ran away. While on the road, we passed several things that had already been hit by Israel: a small airport, a port, Lebanese Army barracks...
...While the bombardment of Beirut airport makes front page news, small strikes like these are spreading disruption over a larger area. "The entire logistics of the country are coming to a halt," Minister of Public Works Mohammed Safadi told TIME...
...problem is that there's almost no place to go. Poor Beirut airport, recently rebuilt, was famously attacked in 1968, when Israeli commandos blew up 13 Lebanese civilian planes as they sat on the tarmac. This time the attack came in slow motion: first the runways, then the fuel-storage tanks, then the runways again, then the terminals...