We were 600 meters away from the blast walking peacefully in the popular Beirut street Mar Mikhael. The scale of the explosion was surreal [1]. I hugged my sister and thought it’s our last moment. We miraculously survived with only a few scratches. Ten days have passed and there’s not a single minute I don’t think of what happened and emulate different scenarios where I could’ve died.
I also work at the most affected hospital that became instantly non-operational and had to be evacuated with over 17 patients, staff, and visitors dead [2].
Please consider donating [3].
[1] https://youtu.be/SkIYjNGiaoA
[2] https://youtu.be/JIxuwE_WPXw
[3] https://www.stgeorgehospital.org/stgeorge-donation