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LONDON: Beirut has long been recognized as the Middle East’s capital of art and culture. But Lebanon’s financial crisis and political instability, and the devastating explosion at Beirut Port in August 2020, have caused the destruction of much of the city and made life increasingly difficult for its creative community.
Some startling numbers we got earlier after 3:00 local time, we were told in the last three nights there have been over 1,400 raids. many are being held for questioning. 100 are under house arrest and 75 different weapons have been recovered. so all of those things could really be interesting developments as we do see this appearing to be a full court press here. >> and the armaments that were inside the building were matched last night only by the armaments being fired at the building. this was a heavy gauge, heavy duty firefight. the aftermath in the light of day around the one central windo...