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Nadim Kobeissi
@nadim.computer

Today, for the third time in my mother's life and for the second in my own life, we lost a home due to it being bombed by the Israeli army.

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Nadim Kobeissi
@nadim.computer

This home was in a building constructed by my uncle, the Lebanese historian Ahmad Beydoun, after my family was able to return to our ancestral hometown, Bint Jbeil, in the year 2000 when Israel ended its decades-long occupation there, during which they destroyed my mother's childhood home.

Nadim Kobeissi
@nadim.computer

In 2006, they would destroy both her and my home in Beirut, rendering us both temporarily homeless. Uncle Ahmad's building was a costly joint effort financed by himself as well as my mother and his other siblings.

Nadim Kobeissi
@nadim.computer

Each owned an apartment in the building, which also housed medical practices, a baby toys shop (owned and run by my cousin Jamal) and a branch for Bank Audi. Upon hearing this news, Uncle Ahmad wrote: "in our hearts, this is the least of our losses."

Nadim Kobeissi
@nadim.computer

We can all only be thankful that our family is unharmed: when I told this story to a distant cousin, she replied that her friend had lost both her mother and father in Israel's bombing of Beirut two days ago, which killed more than 300 civilians in the space of ten minutes.