The article describes the plight of a group of volunteers, led by Fadia Joumaa, who were working to protect nesting endangered sea turtles on a beach in Lebanon before escalating military conflict disrupted their efforts. With heavy bombardment and insecurity in the region, Joumaa, who has been displaced like many others, highlights the challenges faced in accessing the beach and carrying on with their conservation work. Even after a ceasefire, the area remains dangerous, reflecting the significant human and environmental costs of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
"The area is currently under heavy bombardment," said Joumaa, who like hundreds of thousands of others in Lebanon has now been displaced. "It's not possible to reach the beach or anywhere near it."
Despite a ceasefire reached in November in the war between Israel and the militant Lebanese group Hezbollah, by January, Joumaa said the town of Mansouri and the nearby beach where turtles nest was still off-limits to civilians.
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