Activists and journalists circulated on social media, today, Thursday, photos and videos that brought the Lebanese memory back about 31 years, as children were under fire and hiding between homes and cars for fear of death in a “civil war” that lasted 15 years.
Painful scenes and not new to the eyes of the Lebanese citizen spread on the communication sites, among them students from the (Al-Freer) School in Furn Al-Chebbak trying to hide under the study desks, others sleeping on the ground, and another showing a child sheltering in a car and a child sheltering with a soldier’s body from the shooting that accompanied the events of the (Al-Tayouneh) area in the capital Beirut.
The Freire School, Furn El Chebbak.
There is nothing in it of fear, killing, displacement and criminality, as we and our children lived in this hybrid country.
#Ain_Al-Rammana #Tayouneh pic.twitter.com/abSmpDk3Ha
— alia wada (@AlyaAwada) October 14, 2021
#Lebanon don't deserve this scene
Unfortunately, the profiteers take pleasure in terrorizing and displacing children and the loyal people of Lebanon..Lebanon will remain while they are gone!!#Lebanon_not_okay #Lebanon_under_occupation #Lebanon_collapsed #Beirut pic.twitter.com/ssQajs9EDK
— ﮼ Fahad ﮼ Al-Rifai (@fahad_alrefa3e) October 14, 2021
I'll just leave these everywhere #Ambush_Tayouneh #Tayouneh pic.twitter.com/4h3k1vng7F
— jana (@janabbas_) October 14, 2021
The Lebanese journalist Larissa Aoun published on her Twitter page a number of photos and videos of this terrifying day for Beirut students.
"Children are in shelters waiting for their parents," she commented.
Children in school shelters waiting for their families # Lebanon_anhar pic.twitter.com/ahmjMXh12V
— Larissa Aoun (@LarissaAounSky) October 14, 2021
My daughter tells me her experience at school on the day of the liberation of Ali Hassan Khalil, Youssef Fenianos and
Ghazi Zuaiter.
The sounds of bullets, panic and the crying of her friends, and the explosion of Beirut Port is present.
Why do our children have to live with this fear and insecurity, like who or what?
Karmal occupied and corrupt country escaping from justice.
#Lebanon_is_is_ok pic.twitter.com/y3v1BJfESX
— Joanna Nasreddine (@JoannaNasreddi1) October 14, 2021
Some newspapers and websites commented on scenes of students' fear and panic that Beirut is witnessing today a "small civil war."
Pictures and videos that documented the situation of Beirut’s students today sounded the alarm, according to the comments of many pioneers of communication sites who asked, “What is the fault of the children that they pay the price of unarmed weapons?”
It is forbidden to happen.. the scene cuts the heart, and God is
Lebanon sad today 💔
God willing, the most beautiful will return, may God
protect you # Lebanon # Lebanon_collapses # Lebanon_is not_ok #Lebanon_rises #Lebanon_collapses #Lebanon_without_electricity pic.twitter.com/2dYUBadpy5
— FATIMAH AL-AMRO (@FatimahAlAmro1) October 14, 2021
The decorations (Lebanon collapsed), (civil war), (Tayouneh) and (Lebanon is not fine) topped the list of the most popular decorations on Twitter, not only in Lebanon but in the entire Arab world.
A state of terror among children in one of the schools in #Furn_Al-Shabaka after the heavy shooting...
😡😡😡 God does not help everyone who returns to the time of division, civil war and problems between regions, who would not have been 😡 pic.twitter.com/HYh1Vkp4Lh
— adel samia (@adelsamia) October 14, 2021
They should carry a pencil, not hide from bullets
a lost homeland… and a stolen childhood!!#Tayouneh #Lebanon_not_okay https://t.co/pGU2MWK8TZ
— cecelia1💙 (@Selii65) October 14, 2021
Alhamdulillah we have a homeland 🇸🇦✅ #Lebanon _ rivers #Beirut
— Abdullah Ahmed 🇸🇦 (@ABDULLHAHMED22) October 14, 2021
#Lebanon_collapse
May God lift them and not let us,
praise be to God, in the Gulf. We
do not have
parties in
Lebanon who are killing each other, not for the sake of anything other than a party that is
destroying their country with their own hands.
- International # Asian is difficult and strong (@Mbss1401) October 14, 2021
History repeats itself.
These kids are totally terrified like we were in our childhood.
Expensive for what we and our children pay.
Oh my heart, you cut the heart 😢 pic.twitter.com/ZbKWZx462R
— Maguy Bou Ghosn (@MaguyBouGhosn) October 14, 2021
We only knew anything about our lives, and this generation after us has had the same experience.
Freer School students hiding from bullets today pic.twitter.com/h9wAdWM4u3
— layal h (Layal Haddad) (@layalhaddad) October 14, 2021
On Twitter, Lebanese demanded the Minister of Education to resign, against the background of today's events.
The Freire School - Furn El Chebbak ... Children whose crime is that they were born in a country ruled by militias.. We lived our childhood in war and here are our children paying the price for the people's sectarian choices.. Enough pic.twitter.com/hwpojush2K
— 𝓕𝓲𝓻𝓪𝓼 𝓑𝓸𝓾 𝓗𝓪𝓽𝓸𝓾𝓶 (@AbouKamal1980) October 14, 2021
Regarding the resignation of the Minister of Education, it became necessary. #Lebanon_a failed_state.
— George Abou khater (@GeorgeAboukhat1) October 14, 2021
https://t.co/782q4eh8M9 The National Achievement of the Militia, Detaining Children in Schools, Including Al-Farir School, Furn El Chebbak, terrorizing parents and neighborhoods with bullets and sniping, restoring the scenery of the seam lines, preparations from last night and strangers distributed in their car in some areas of the two regions. And the parties and the victims #Kings_of_the_Street
— ziad assouad (@ZiadAssouad) October 14, 2021
The security deterioration in Beirut began with unidentified gunmen shooting extensively at supporters of Hezbollah and the Amal movement during a demonstration, denouncing the decisions of the judicial investigator in the Beirut port explosion case, Judge Tariq Al-Bitar.
Hezbollah and the Amal Movement said in a joint statement, "After the participants in the peaceful assembly went to the Palace of Justice to denounce the politicization of the investigation into the port issue, and upon their arrival to the Tayouneh area (mixed Shiite and Christian) they were exposed to direct fire from snipers on the roofs of the buildings."
On August 4, 2020, a massive explosion occurred in the port of Beirut, killing 217 people and wounding about 7,000 others, as well as massive material damage to residential and commercial buildings.
History repeats itself.
31 years since the civil war ended in Lebanon, today we see some terrible scenes in Beirut and other Lebanese cities at the hands of terrorist organization Hezbollah.
It's like nothing changed, no lesson learned.
#Lebanon #Hezbollah_terrorist #Lebanon_is_not_ok pic.twitter.com/RK9z36mpZp
— Wirjil (@Wirjil) October 14, 2021
May God help the Lebanese army, and are there children
in front of the Furn al-Shbak school? # Sedition_Forbidden_Trague, O children of militias https://t.co/AbDoZUWRwe pic.twitter.com/8zZxYbJYiF
— Antoun Gergi - Antoun Gergi 🇱🇧 (@AntounGrg) October 14, 2021
The students of Lebanon live the horror that we lived in our childhood. The
picture today is from a school in the area of the clashes.
# Lebanon # An Endless War pic.twitter.com/4anCjIwZ0K
— Nadia Bsat 🇱🇧 (@NadiaBsat) October 14, 2021
A picture is worth a thousand words. #Lebanon #Beirut #Lebanon pic.twitter.com/Q3QDfQCwzk
— 𝑺
(@Ay____OSH) October 14, 2021