Sue Hosn fled southern Lebanon as a teenager during Israel’s 1978 invasion. As images of recent airstrikes flashed on her TV screen, she knew what her family members still there had to do: “Pack your stuff and leave.”
As images of airstrikes in southern Lebanon flashed across her TV, Melbourne dentist Sue Hosn felt a pang of panic – and then a heaviness she hadn’t felt in more than four decades.
Hosn, who fled Tyre with her family as a teenager during Israel’s 1978 invasion of southern Lebanon, knew there was just one thing to do.The hours that followed were torture for Hosn, as her relatives piled into a car with a handful of belongings and made a mad dash for the mountains in Btekhnay, where Hosn and her husband own two apartments.The journey, which ordinarily takes 2½ hours, turned into a 15-hour ordeal. Thousands of Lebanese clogged local roads in their rush for safety.
“It’s actually devastating,” said Hosn, whose cousin – a 53-year-old mother of three – was among those killed while visiting a friend in the initial strikes in Tyre.The attacks have brought painful memories for Lebanese Australians who have experienced war first-hand. “We’re just so helpless we don’t know what to do, and I don’t know what to do. I can’t sleep properly, and we don’t know how to help.”Hosn said she did not want to disclose her religion because “all people in Lebanon are united, and regardless of their religion are feeling the consequences of the invasion”.
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