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Loss Upon Loss:
Almost two years ago, when fighting broke out between the Lebanese army and Muslim militias in the Nahr el-Bared camp, Hasniyye Yehia Tawiyyeh was forced to flee her home. Today, she lives in the nearby Beddawi camp.
Her husband was hospitalized after their flight. A week later, he died in her arms while she was helping him up the seven flights of stairs to their small apartment. Her son was later killed during a peaceful protest against the fighting.
"I have been through many things," she says. "But all the hardship I've been through, I could put it in one hand. The death of my son, I would put it in the other hand and it would weigh much more than all the other suffering I have endured." |