Mother in Lebanon tells children that attack on village ‘was a balloon’

A mother who works for an Irish charity in Lebanon has said she tries to stay strong for her three children as their country is bombed.

Amena Hareb said she first told her three-year-old son Suleman that an attack on her home village in south Lebanon was balloons in the sky.

She, her husband and their three children travelled back to Beirut but have been living in a hotel for more than a week after hearing and seeing bombs hit in the areas where they were staying in the Lebanese capital.

She said she worries about the impact of the conflict on her daughter Noor, four, Suleman, and 18-month-old Mohamed.

As a protection programme manager for the Irish charity Trocaire, Mrs Hareb holds calls and meetings with partners – tasked with providing food, hygiene kits and psycho-social supports – and she tries to reassure them.

“I’m the mom, I need to be strong for my children, for my family, and I’m the protection programme manager,” she told the PA news agency.

“Everything is…

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