Israel’s escalating war in Lebanon brings calamity to a fragile state (original) (raw)

BEIRUT — Reports of new casualties streamed in across Lebanon on Sunday, from the south to the far north. Families displaced by Israeli strikes found shelter where they could. The gloomy capital smelled of sulfur and drones buzzed overhead, one resident wrote.

“War is here, in every aspect of our lives,” Mona Fawaz, a professor at the American University of Beirut, said in her post on X, capturing the mood of a country used to uncertainty but now settling into dread.