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...girls, who identified herself as Zeinab, 26, nervously pulled her chador down to cover as much of her face as she could. She explained that she felt a religious duty to attend the protest. "How dare these men who call themselves protectors of religion enter a girls' dormitory in the first place?" Zeinab said. Her friend Sara, 27, added, "Our problem goes beyond the elections. They are ruining our religion. They chant 'Heydar, Heydar' [a name for the Prophet Muhammad's cousin Imam Ali, a central Shi'ite leader] when they kill these innocent people. That's terrifying! They feel...
...applied for help 50 days ago, and we still have gotten no response," says a neighbor, Salim Kareem, whose home was sprayed with shrapnel from the same air strike. His children, 11-year old Zeinab Kareem and six-year-old Abbas Kareem have jagged scars on their legs and torsos from where they were cut by shards of flying metal...
...hospital in Tyre, Mohammed Shalhoub breaks down in tears as he answers a flurry of phone calls from friends and relatives. His six-year-old daughter, Zeinab, his brother, Tayseer, and his sister, Fatmeh, were killed. His wife, Rabab, and four-year-old son, Hassan, survived and were being treated in another hospital. A former student of Islam, Mohammed says that his faith will sustain him. "We believe in God. We have a history of sacrifice and martyrdom," he says. In 1996, the massacre at the UN base in Qana galvanized the West to arrange a ceasefire. But few residents...
...woke up to bombs falling on us," says Noor Hashem, 13, a niece of Abbas Hashem, speaking from a bed in the government-run hospital in Tyre, six miles northwest of Qana. Noor, who wears a brown headscarf, says she had been sleeping beside her older sister Zeinab and a cousin. They fled the shattered building and ran to her aunt's house nearby where they waited six hours before the rescue services could reach them. Her mother went to look for her three brothers - Mahdi, 7, Jaafar, 12, and Abbas, nine months - and Noor says she has not seen...
...presence inside some voting stations, too. TIME reporters saw some, unimpeded by judicial supervisors loitering and peering over the shoulders of voters, who were marking their ballots in full view of others rather than behind a curtain in secret. Others chanted slogans inside a polling station at a Sayeda Zeinab elementary school...