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New York Times
21 Sep 2024
Euan Ward


NextImg:A Week of Chaos Pushes Lebanon’s Doctors to the Limit

Dr. Dania El-Hallak was already exhausted. After wireless devices exploded across Lebanon, there had been little time to process what she had seen — the hundreds of wounded, many of their faces disfigured beyond recognition.

“I am hoping that it was all just a bad dream,” Dr. El-Hallak said, still struggling to take stock of the carnage on Friday.

Then, without warning, Israeli fighter jets ripped through the skies above Lebanon’s capital.

“There are strikes in Dahiya?” she said in disbelief, using the Arabic name for Beirut’s southern suburbs.

Her nightmare had only just begun.

The attacks on Hezbollah’s communication devices this week — widely attributed to Israel — wounded thousands of people, leaving many of them permanently disabled and in need of long-term rehabilitative care. The Israeli airstrike just miles from downtown Beirut on Friday, which killed at least 37 people and injured dozens more, has only added to the toll. Others are still presumed trapped in the debris.

Lebanon’s ailing health system — already embattled by a crippling economic collapse — has been sent into overdrive.

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Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta at his home in London in December. He volunteered last year at a burn unit in Gaza and now believes war will come to Lebanon. Credit...Mary Turner for The New York Times

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