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Voices on the GroundHistory Education at Wartime:
Lebanon in Focus
By Nayla Khodr Hamadeh November 2024
Since early September, Lebanon has borne witness to an escalation of war that has wreaked havoc across the country, leading to unprecedented levels of destruction and chaos. With over a million individuals uprooted from their homes and more than three thousand seven hundred lives tragically lost, the humanitarian toll continues to rise.
Caught under intensive Israeli airstrikes, countless families had to abandon their homes in search of safety. As carpet bombing targeted southern Lebanon, many of our colleagues—teachers and their loved ones had mere moments to flee, leaving behind not only their homes but also their communities and cherished belongings. In their desperate attempt to escape, they found themselves ensnared in nightmarish traffic jams, where some remained trapped for over 24 hours with young children and the elderly. In a densely populated nation already hosting more than a million refugees, the quest for safe accommodation became an overwhelming ordeal amid one of the gravest economic crises in the country’s history.