Qabr Chamoun, Lebanon – Tucked in the hills of Mount Lebanon, about an hour from Beirut, a school has been turned into a shelter for families displaced from southern Lebanon due to Israeli attacks.Once filled with students, the schoolyard is now a place for aid deliveries. Slides and swings sit empty. Clothes hang between windows. Inside the classrooms, desks have been pushed aside to make room for mattresses.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list“It’s very difficult,” said Aymane Malli, holding the hand of his five-year-old son, Jad. “But for me, it’s OK because I have to survive. I have to take care of my family,” added the 49-year-old, one of about 100 people to have taken refuge at the school in Qabr Chamoun.Malli fled with his wife and five children from Habbouch, near the coastal city of Tyre, after Israel began bombing Lebanon on March 2, two days after it launched its joint war with the United States against Iran.“We wait,” Malli said, when asked what the coming weeks might hold. “We wait,” he repeated. “Maybe one day everything will end, and we can return home … if we can return home. We don’t have another choice.” Vacant swings and slides at a school in the Lebanon Mountains [Caolán Magee/Al Jazeera]‘There were strikes around us’Across Lebanon, schools, public buildings and makeshift shelters a …
