Sally Hayden
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And hundreds of people were killed.
And then there was the previous war.
And then, of course, Lebanon has had a lot of other issues, you know, economic crisis.
Yeah, the Beirut port explosion as well.
So it's kind of crisis upon crisis.
And it's really hard to know how people are coping with that.
Yeah, again, I mean, that's something.
And it's really important when we talk about Lebanese people to obviously understand that there's lots of different views in Lebanon.
You know, there are people that support Hezbollah, people who hate Hezbollah, people who, you know, have lots of different views on this situation.
But I do hear from a lot of people that they don't
feel, yeah, they don't feel supported and they don't feel like every life is being valued equally.
I actually was on a site yesterday, speaking of the April 8th attacks.
So I think I've been to nine different airstrike sites now of airstrikes that hit at that one exact time.
And yeah, all of them have, you know, I've seen signs of civilian life at them.
And this one that I was at yesterday, the family had just been able to return for the first time to where their father was killed.
And one of the daughters, she was 24, she was telling me basically they just feel like the international community only cares about oil prices.
So they were like, you know, they don't have a problem with our people being killed if the oil prices are good.
But once the oil prices start going up, then that's when people, you know, start taking action or caring.
But the message that they're receiving from that is...
that their lives don't matter.