{"id":9474,"date":"2021-08-04T14:50:10","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T14:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/?post_type=articles&p=9474"},"modified":"2021-08-09T19:32:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T19:32:31","slug":"beirut-explosion-rania-issa-lebanese-actress","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/beirut-explosion-rania-issa-lebanese-actress\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Been One Year Since The Explosion, And This Is How We’re Feeling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“For the longest time, my friend had been asking me to head up to the mountains and visit her, so I finally decided to go. I took my two kids and went to Bikfaya.<\/p>\n

We were sitting on her balcony and chatting, then all of a sudden, we felt everything shaking. My friend asked me if I felt it, and I told her I did. We thought it was an earthquake, then suddenly we heard missiles and shortly after was the explosion.<\/p>\n

At that very moment, I felt terrified, and my daughter<\/a> felt it too. She was nine at the time and started to cry. Even though we were in a very far village from the explosion, we didn’t know what happened. I thought that maybe planes were coming from Israel, and we were under attack. I felt a war was going to start in Lebanon, and we were going to die. We turned on the TV and checked social media to see an explosion in Beirut.<\/p>\n

Within the first week of what happened, we were in complete shock, and even till now, it’s very hard to talk about it. Ever since that day, we fell into significant trauma, especially my daughter. Every night she would come to my room because she couldn’t sleep. We might’ve been one of the luckier families because we live further from the port, and maybe we would’ve heard a loud noise, and a few things could’ve fallen in the house, but we were devastated. We felt depressed, sad, overwhelmed, and we’re not sure if we as Lebanese can get out of it anytime soon. Especially those who lost their loved ones.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, I put myself in the place of a sister or mother who lost someone and couldn’t imagine how they felt. Still, till today, we don’t know the reason, which makes it even harder being in the unknown.<\/p>\n

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