(4 Aug 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon – 3 August 2024
1. Various street scenes of Beirut’s Rmeil neighborhood
2. Various of Helene Ata sitting in her living room, watching videos on her mobile
3. Ata showing video of 2020 Beirut port blast
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Helene Ata, twin brother killed in 2020 Beirut port blast:
“On the evening of August 4th, my mobile phone rang, and it was a person who had passed by our building, which collapsed to the ground. Both of my brothers, Abdo and Issam, were inside."
5. Wide shot of Ata checking her mobile
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Helene Ata, twin brother killed in 2020 Beirut port blast:
“Issam was rescued after spending 18 hours under the rubble, with a permanent injury to his leg. Abdo and Shadi (the family’s neighbor) were staying at home during the COVID-19 pandemic and didn’t go out, so they couldn’t survive. I lost my brother and our friend and neighbor, Shadi Abu Shakra.”
7. Close of poster of Abdo Ata, Helene’s brother, who was killed in blast
8. Ata watching a video on her mobile
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Helene Ata, twin brother killed in 2020 Beirut port blast:
“After four years, the crime is repeated every day regarding this case and the victims whose souls only seek the truth. Their families cannot accept that such a crime goes unpunished."
10. Various of Ata and her mother standing on balcony
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Beirut, Lebanon – 3 August 2024
11. Tilt down of buildings in Beirut’s Karantina neighborhood
12. Various exteriors of house of Mirna Habboush who was injured in 2020 Beirut port blast
13. Various of Mirna Habboush standing on her balcony
14. Various of Mirna and her son Chris looking at photos of their damaged house on her phone
15. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mirna Habboush, injured in 2020 Beirut port blast:
“I felt immense pressure that pushed me and my car into the highway divider. What I felt was like knives tearing through me; it was the broken glass from the car that hurt me, as if they were knives piercing my body. That’s what I felt. In my mind, I thought I had died, and my son had also died. I didn’t expect to come out alive and find my son still alive, crying and bloodied in my arms.”
16. Close of Mirna’s phone showing photos of her damaged car
17. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Mirna Habboush, injured in 2020 Beirut port blast:
“If we were in another country and this explosion, which is considered the third largest in the world, had occurred, I don’t think we would be in this situation. After four years, we are still demanding justice, at the very least an indictment, so that we can know who did this to us. They are still trying to make us forget the event, they are forgetting us, and killing us a second time.”
18. Various of ground zero of Beirut port with the damaged silos and remnants of trucks and containers burnt in the 2020 blast
STORYLINE:
As Lebanon commemorates the fourth anniversary of the devastating 2020 Beirut port explosion this Sunday, the ongoing turmoil continues to leave deep scars in the capital’s communities.
In the Rmeil neighborhood, the devastating impact of the catastrophe that hit the city on August 4 is still tangible despite reconstruction works.
Helene Ata, a psychologist, lost her twin brother Abdo in the collapse of their historic building. Her other brother, Issam, sustained a permanent leg injury.
Helene says she spends her days surrounded by awful memories of what happened four years ago, often watching videos of the aftermath on her mobile phone.
Four years on, Helene still feels the pain of the loss acutely.
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