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Laurels and Darts: Recognizing the unrecognizable.

Columbia Journalism Review·Susie Banikarim·about 1 month ago
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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter . Qassem Aboud spent weeks scouring the hospitals in Beirut, looking for his daughter Zahraa. After air strikes relentlessly pummeled their hometown, in Southern Lebanon, she and her sister fled to the city to live with their aunts. They thought Beirut would be safer. It was not. On April 8, just hours after Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire in the war with Iran, Israel launched a massive aerial assault on Lebanon without warning. Israeli jets conducted more than a hundred strikes in just ten minutes, killing more than three hundred and fifty people and wounding more than a thousand others, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health. It is now known in Lebanon as “Black Wednesday.” Zahraa’s aunts were killed during the attack. Her sister was injured and taken to a nearby hospital. Zahraa went missing.  In a devastating piece for The Intercept , Alaa Serhal explores the aftermath of Black Wednesday.…

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