In recent weeks, the initial shock of the intensified war between Hezbollah and Israel had given way to a feeling that relative safety had returned to Beirut, as the pace of strikes slowed and the city center remained largely unscathed. Now that tenuous sense of security has once again been shattered and a city already weary from two months of war is coming to grips with yet another escalation of violence.
There is no security anymore, said Hussein Zahwi, 49. On Monday morning, Mr. Zahwi stood across from one of the buildings hit in the Mar Elias neighborhood the day before. Wisps of smoke were still wafting from its shattered store windows. The strikes ignited a large fire that burned through the night and blackened the facade of the building.
The strikes on Sunday killed at least six people and injured around two dozen more, according to Lebanon's Ministry of Health. Mr. Zahwi had rented an apartment on the third floor of this building with his wife and three children weeks earlier, after Israeli airstrikes began raining down near his home in the southern suburbs of Beirut. His three children were shaken but not injured when the strikes tore through the building in Mar Elias on Sunday evening.
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