Feelings of shock, anguish, and anger still dominate the faces of the survivors of the Beirut port explosion last Tuesday, which killed 149 people and more than 5 thousand wounded, in addition to the massive destruction in the facilities, installations and homes that extended to kilometers from the place of the explosion, which many likened to the explosion of the Japanese city of Hiroshima During the end of World War II.
Georgette Kanaan, 50, from the neighborhood of Mar Mikhael, adjacent to the Beirut port area, says she thought, in the first moments of the explosion, that they were gunshots, so she quickly got up to find out, and as soon as she reached the window, she heard a terrible explosion, and the curtains fell and the window glass scattered in her face. "At the moment, only my son crossed my mind. I resisted the shock and rushed to embrace it. It was only moments and intensity of black smoke that prevented us from seeing each other. But I clung to it for fear of a mysterious fate."
The fiftieth citizen continues her talk that when her daughter arrived at her home in a village, and learned of the force of the explosion, she did not expect her mother and brother to go out alive, and she was crying that despite the joy of escaping, the feeling of heartbreak barely left her.
Flying sound
at the time when Laila Murad (40 years old, a shopkeeper) was helping one of her clients to choose household appliances. The devastating explosion occurred, which was said to "destroy the world over our heads" and citizenship added. "The explosion was heard before flying, it is only seconds She counted until everything was destroyed and the lights went out, and the woman concludes her testimony by saying, "My injury was slight compared to hundreds of wounded, she was miraculously saved. Thank God for deliverance."
At a time when devastation and devastation swept through large areas of Beirut, the Thirtieth George Khoury thought only to save his family residing in the vicinity of the port, and he said, "I tried at first to contact my family, but all the lines were cut. I rushed to them, but the size of the destruction and the bodies of the dead prevented my arrival in The beginning. The shock was very big. "
Khoury, whose house was left without walls due to the explosion, says that he saved his family from the rubble, and he helped some people to transfer his relatives to the hospital in a critical condition. "My father is still in the intensive care room, while my mother's health has improved," he says.
"My house was ruined," the young Beirut man added, crying. "We had only tents and slept in the street."
In an effort to alleviate the victims of the port explosion, the Lebanese "green orien" association (a non-governmental organization) launched an initiative entitled "Beirut never dies" to support and support the victims of the explosion, says Rania Kanaan, a volunteer in the association, the humanitarian message and the love of Beirut prompted us to come to support Victims, we are cooperating to clear the rubble and save the wounded. May God have mercy on the martyrs of the nation. "