[tadamon-l] [Lebanon] Photo Essay: Haret Hreik Destruction in Beirut.

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Photo Essay: Haret Hreik Destruction in Beirut.
by Mohammed Shublaq of Samidoun, Beirut.

View a photo essay of Haret Hreik from independent media activist & 
organizer with the Samidoun coalition, Mohammad Shublaq taken on Tuesday, 
15 August 2006. Haret Hreik is a neighborhood in the southern suburb of 
Beirut that was most heavily targeted by Israeli air-strikes on Beirut's 
southern suburbs or Dahye in Arabic. Representatives from the local 
municipality estimates that there are around 400 buildings, both 
residential & commercial that were fully or partially destroyed by the 
Israeli military.

On Monday, August 14th, internally displaced Lebanese refugees from the 
southern suburb of Beirut & the south of Lebanon, began returning to their 
villages and neighborhoods over one month after the Israeli attack on 
Lebanon began. Tens-of-thousands of internally displaced people returned 
to view the Israeli wrought destruction of their neighborhoods & homes. 
Lebanese medical unites began searching for the dead among the rubble 
while volunteers began collecting the rubble.

In addition to their struggle to reconstruct their homes and institutions, 
internally displaced refugees are still facing the danger of thousands of 
land-mines, unexploded rockets & munitions from cluster bombs dropped by 
the Israeli army.

* To view the photo-essay on Haret Hreik visit:
http://gallery.cmaq.net/Haret_Hreik_Destruction

* To view the short video-clip from Haret Hreik visit:
https://video.indymedia.org/en/2006/08/446.shtml

* For more information on Haret Hreik visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haret_Hreik

* For more information on the Samidoun Coalition visit:
http://samidoun.org

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