Despite the war in Lebanon, they thought they were safe: the people in the German-Lebanese meeting center “Dar Assalam” south of Beirut. Then Israeli rockets hit.
A sob drowns out the crunch of broken concrete under your shoes. It rises into the round crowns of the pine trees, whose needles are still covered in dust from the explosion. Two days after the Israeli Air Force attack on the German-Lebanese meeting center “Dar Assalam” (in German: “House of Peace”), a young woman in all black walks through the rubble. Larissa Shalhoub came to retrieve the last of her parents’ belongings.
Larissa Shalhoub, whom everyone calls Lulu, has been orphaned for two days. At 13 years old.
Source: Stern
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