Written by Theresa Boueri
100 airstrikes in just 10 minutes.
200+ people killed and 1000+ people injured,
with people still stuck under rubbles
(statistics as of now)
I don’t even know where to begin…
Today I couldn’t work, I couldn’t focus, I couldn’t do anything.
I was just sitting there in tears, watching my country burn
and feeling completely helpless
They say this is about Hezbollah.
But what I’m seeing… what we are all seeing…
is not just about Hezbollah.
What I’m seeing is innocent people being targeted.
Babies. Children. Pregnant women. Families.
People who have absolutely nothing to do with any political group,
nothing to do with any war, nothing to do with any conflict.
Lebanon is not Hezbollah.
70% of the Lebanese population is not with Hezbollah. Christians,
Sunnis, Druze — they are not Hezbollah. And even within the Shia
community, not everyone supports Hezbollah.
Lebanon is millions of innocent people.
People who wake up, go to work, build their lives, dream, love, and
just want to live in peace like anyone else in the world.
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I personally know so many people in Beirut.
Friends. Contacts. People I speak to daily.
Today, one of my friends told me “nkatable 3omer jdid liom”
— like she was given a second life —
just because her job happened to send her to Beirut today.
Another person I know works in Beirut every single day.
Doctors, employees, students… normal people.
Not fighters. Not politicians. Not part of any group.
And yet they are the ones living in fear.
They are the ones hearing explosions.
They are the ones wondering if they will make it home.
Whole cities are being destroyed.
Not specific individuals. Not just “targets.”
Entire areas. Entire neighborhoods.
Beirut is not Tehran.
Lebanon is not a battlefield.
It is a country full of life, beauty, culture, history…
a country that is always called the Switzerland of the Middle East.
And I can’t help but ask…
Is this being done on purpose? To ruin Lebanon?
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A country of only 10,452 km²…
next to a country that is more than double its size…
Why this hunger for power?
Why this need for destruction?
Why this obsession with domination?
When will this hunger for power ever stop?
When will this need to control, to destroy, to overpower ever end?
And why this jealousy?
Why this envy toward a land that is not yours?
Why such hatred toward a country that only wants to live,
breathe, and survive?
So how can this be justified?
If Hezbollah is labeled a terrorist group…
then what do we call launching hundreds of missiles in minutes?
What do we call destroying villages?
What do we call killing innocent people, injuring thousands, and
leaving families trapped under rubble?
Is this not terror?
Is this not inhumane?
This does not feel like self-defense.
This feels like destruction.
Like power.
Like domination at the expense of innocent lives.
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And what hurts even more…
is that the people paying the price are always the same —
the civilians, the families, the innocent.
I am not speaking from politics.
I am not defending any party.
I am speaking as a human being.
As someone who has people she loves there.
As someone watching innocent lives being shattered and feeling
powerless.
We are in 2026…
and still this is happening.
Still people are dying like this.
Still no one is stopping it.
Still the world is watching.
What kind of world are we living in?
It feels ugly.
It feels unfair.
It feels like humanity is failing.
This is not politics. This is a massacre.
This is not a war. This is oppression.
Free my people.
Free my Lebanon.
Free my home.
My heart is burning for every drop of blood shed today
God protect Lebanon
