"They can't leave us in peace," said 15-year-old Fatima

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Terror of war interrupts quiet evening in Shiyyah

"We thought it was safe here . . ."

By Rym Ghazal and Raed El Rafei
Daily Star staff
Wednesday, August 09, 2006

SHIYYAH/BEIRUT: Hundreds of Lebanese relived their worst nightmare late Monday as the Israeli military struck the Shiyyah area for the first time, a place where a large number of the displaced fled after earlier raids on the southern suburbs of Beirut. "They can't leave us in peace," said 15-year-old Fatima Ismail, one of 80 people recovering from wounds from the two Israeli strikes on Monday that demolished one building and split two others in half.

"We thought it was safe here as there are no Hizbullah people or offices here, but we were wrong," said Ismail.

She suffered fractures to her arms and legs and head wounds and is now recovering at Hayat Hospital in Shiyyah.

Ismail's family moved from the Dahiyeh to the densely populated and predominantly Shiite area of Shiyyah with the onset of war, believing Shiyyah to be "a safe area" since it is closer to the heart of Beirut and farther away from the targeted Hizbullah stronghold area.

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