“People are exploding,” says Brazilian waiting for rescue in Lebanon
Lindaura Lianes Hijazi, a 51-year-old Brazilian housewife, is currently living in a crowded shelter in Beirut with her husband and two young children. They fled their home in the city’s southern neighborhood, which was devastated by Israeli airstrikes. Hijazi's family is now awaiting a flight organized by the Brazilian government to help them leave Lebanon.“Those missiles destroyed more than seven buildings near my home. The area where I used to live is devastated. A bomb like that can blow up an entire building. The last time I was home, they dropped over ten bombs without any warning. Everything shook like an earthquake, and I thought I was going to die right there,” said the Brazilian woman from Assis Chateaubriand, in the state of Paraná, in an interview with Agência Brasil.Hijazi ...