Word: beirutization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Zaged Melhem, 36, a Lebanese civilian, was walking from his home in southern Beirut early Friday morning. It was still dark outside as he made his way across a bridge in his neighborhood and at once became the nearly 700th victim of an Israeli air strike. He told me he barely heard a thing before he was thrown more than 30 feet through the air with shrapnel piercing his feet and hands, and straight through his abdominal wall into his intestine. Luckily, he lived to tell about it. His best friend, who walking with...
While packing, I called my uncle who was coming up from Beirut that day. He told me he would [take us] back down...
...After making it to Beirut, we] started driving to the hotel north of the city...While we were passing a port, it was struck by Israeli fire...
...Beirut was beautiful, but marred by plumes of smoke. That night our hotel shook [from the] bombardment...
...Other officials blame the Lebanese government, asking why Caritas, a Christian charity, managed to dispatch five trucks of food from Beirut to Tyre in the previous week, while the government has sent nothing...