Sports fans once queued for admission in the main concourse of Beirut’s Camille Chamoun Sport City Stadium. Now, rows of tents fill the floor.
Sports City has become a temporary refuge for residents displaced by war. At night, when the clamour subsides, displaced residents hear and feel every thud and vibration of Israeli strikes on nearby buildings, just a few hundred metres away.
Abdallah Abu Gharib slept in the stadium’s parking lot for three days while the site was being prepared to accommodate some of the overflow of people displaced by Israeli strikes, amid the renewed war between Israel and Hezbollah.
“Today is my second day here,” he told The Nation
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