The exclusive Skybar welcomed in 400 Lebanese people made homeless in the ever-widening war
nside the cavernous black walls of Beirut’s most exclusive after-hours club, two people are asleep on sofas tucked under the DJ booth. Beds fill the section normally used for bottle service, and piles of blankets are piled high on tables around the dancefloor.camps. Now their goat is chewing leaves from a tree branch that supports a washing line and a makeshift kitchen.
Some 400 people displaced by Israeli bombardments across southern Lebanon and the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut are currently sheltering inside Skybar, which until recently welcomed guests to sip champagne on the top floor with a view of the Mediterranean and then party until the early hours in the Skin club below.The families sleeping on the black-and-white floor of the club entrance, around the mirrored bars and beneath the plush black upholstered balconies of the nightclub are just some of the 1.
Israel’s battle against Hezbollah, Iran’s most powerful proxy, began when the group declared its support for Hamas’s attack on Israel in October last year. Entire neighbourhoods were deserted, the few signs of life being the young men on motorbikes carrying posters of Nasrallah, which were also affixed to the towering and sometimes smouldering piles of rubble from Israeli airstrikes.
Lebanon’s underfunded and often highly constrained military, she adds, “isn’t allowed to carry a single bullet, so we need Hezbollah”.
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