Me and the War--FS

I was doing what I did normally, like every other person in Lebanon, when my mom turned on the news, and heard that Israel was bombing the south of Lebanon. I asked my mom “Mom is the situation in Lebanon okay or is something bad going to happen?”

My mom answered “Well it’s the first day, so I don’t exactly know if it’s going to be okay or not.” So my family and I stayed in Beirut until Israel said that it was going to bomb Dahieh, and when we heard that, all my family went up to the mountains to Bhamdoun because we have a house there. When I was packing my stuff, I started crying because I was very scared.

After packing my bag, I asked my mom if there was going to be a war. My mom answered me saying “Maybe yes and maybe no, but were going to Bhamdoun because it’s safer up there.”

So we stayed in the mountains during the entire five weeks of the war. When we were in the mountains we stayed at home and did nothing but watch the news. While I was up in the mountains I still felt scared, and I still heard the bombs and smelled their smoke, and I know that because everyone in my family was sick including my neighbor. The bombs that got dropped on Dahieh were so loud that I could hear them in the mountains.

During those 33 days of the war, my mom and my aunt decided that it was enough, and that it was time to travel to Kuwait and that my brothers, cousins and I were going to go to a school in Kuwait. A few days later, my neighbors and my uncle convinced my mom and my aunt not to leave because we were safe up in the mountains. So we stayed.

After that I went to Beirut with my cousins to get more stuff and clothes because we didn’t have enough clothes. And speaking of not enough we didn’t have enough fuel for our cars and the generator because, Israel didn’t let fuel come in to the country. The reason we were also using a generator was because there was also no electricity, and the reason we didn’t have electricity was because

When the war was ending, no one knew it was ending because the day we got the tickets to travel to Kuwait was the day Israel decided to stop bombing Lebanon. So we canceled everything the flights and the taxis. When everything became better, we came back to Beirut, and the Lebanese people were happy that the war ended. This is a war to be remembered, and never to be repeated.