Beirut’s Sky Bar, as soon as a bustling nightclub, now serves as a refuge for the displaced. On October 15, 2024, it sheltered 400 individuals, principally girls and youngsters, in Beirut, Lebanon.
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Beirut’s Sky Bar, as soon as a bustling nightclub, now serves as a refuge for the displaced. On October 15, 2024, it sheltered 400 individuals, principally girls and youngsters, in Beirut, Lebanon.
Fadel Itani/Center East Photographs/AFP by way of Getty Photographs
Greater than a fifth of Lebanon’s inhabitants is now displaced, principally fleeing from the nation’s south as Israel carries out airstrikes towards the Iran-backed group Hezbollah there. With so many individuals out of their properties, they’re taking refuge anyplace they will, together with in one in every of Beirut’s hottest nightclubs. Our reporter in Lebanon introduces us to among the displaced.
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