I just learned the exact location of the attack in Beirut. It’s not even one block away from where some of my family lives and where I lived when I was living in Lebanon/stay when I visit. It went off in the exact same building where I used to get my hair done.

My family who lives there- along with most people living in that neighborhood (Al dahiyeh)- all moved there after being forcibly displaced from south Lebanon by Israel. Israel has been surveilling this neighborhood in particular for years because of the population of resistance fighters that live there. Everyone is relatively fine, a bit scared, but ok. When I talk to them they just say “3adi, we’re used to it.” “3adi” means “normal” or “ordinary”
There is nothing normal or ordinary about this. But the sad and scary part is when they say that, I know they mean it.