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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...
Zaged had several things working against him last Friday morning. First off, there was the timing. The air strikes appear to be worst late at night and early morning. Also, he was walking on a bridge, now well known targets as the city of Beirut is slowly cut off from...
The most vulnerable seem to be new properties. Thirty half-built homes in a new development bordering the Renaissance Ross Bridge Golf Resort in Birmingham have lost copper plumbing pipes. Thieves are snatching metals in daylight on job sites. "We put it in on Monday and had to replace it...
Down on the ground, the destruction of Lebanon's infrastructure wrought by Israeli air strikes is a study of scripted chaos. Pilots have paid particular attention to the country's bridges, knocking out over 80% of them, according to the Lebanese government - even some comically small ones. The bridge at...
With Israeli warships attacking ports and running blockades, the only way out of the country is by land through Syria. Fleets of taxis carried hotel guests on the three-hour trip to Damascus until an air strike knocked out a key bridge. Now cars have to take back roads through...