Southern Lebanon- The Israeli raid that targeted the house of Attia was not a missile fired from an Israeli war plane. Southern LebanonAnd she stormed her conscience without permission, and settled in depths to this day.
“The time was close to ten in the morning, we were inside the house, my mother and my sister, when the sound of the explosion surprised us, we did not know what happened, we all were hit, and from that moment everything changed, life was no longer measured in days but with before the raid and beyond.”
Since that day, no longer sees the world as it was, infiltrated fear to its diaries, and the voices were crossed as the custodians of the door or the sound of a car that can return it to that moment, as if the time stopped there. With a voice, she adds, “If I hear any voice, be terrified, fear and feel that the raid started again.”
A renewed surgeon
This raid was not the first slap of this war in the life of Ekbar. About 20 days before the start of the Israeli aggression on southern Lebanon, she lost her father, while her brother was martyred 36 years ago, a surgeon inherited by memory and another bleeding every day. “I am still affected, the surgeon is still open and nothing is beautiful in this life,” she says.
Despite everything, she chose to renounce a return to her affected house to restore a stone over another, like many sons of the south who restore their homes so that they may restore some of their lives, but she is well aware that fixing the walls is much easier than restoring reassurance.
She whispered with words of heavier fatigue, “We sleep and advise in fear, this is not a passing moment but rather daily suffering”, and she suffers from more than physical injuries, as the raid left what she describes as “internal fractures” that eagerness of her daily life, and indicates that anxiety accompanies her at every moment even those that are supposed to be safe, and that sleep has become a long -standing luxury.
“I feel that I am not fine, I cry a lot, I was dispersed for no reason, I forget what I wanted to do or say even my voice changed, and my view of life has changed,” she explains. She received visits of psychological support, but she sees that she was not enough, “I may need a long time or a miracle, to restore something from myself.”
Despite all these losses, there is still a small space in her heart, and she says, “I hope that God will relieve us, and that a generation will not see what we have seen of pain, terror and ugliness that are indescribable.”
Then a moment is silent, before you continued, “But life lost its taste, what can I say more than that? It is difficult for a person to express his pain, it is very difficult.”
Indoor wreck
Nabil Issa, 45, was not expected to leave his house in the southern town of Aitron without farewell, neither his memories nor the walls of his house, but he was forced to leave in haste after smoke covered the sky of the town, and turned his house into a pile of rubble.
Although his body was not hurt and no one of his direct family members, something deep was destroyed inside him, and he says to Al -Jazeera Net, “I feel as if my hearing is not the same, not in my ears, but in my head, I hear people as if they were far away as if between me and them is an unfair distance.”
Then he added with a targeted voice, “Calm has become more terrifying me than the noise, and when the voices disappear, I feel that silence is nothing but an introduction to a coming missile.”
Since the bombing stopped, noble has changed, it became little words. His wife and children noticed this, but he avoids talking about his feelings, and says, “I no longer trust words, the war taught us to conceal, to carry our pain silently, because no one understands the size of this pain.”
Anxiety has become the companion of his diaries, he is not absent from his mind, nor does he leave for him a moment of silence, and confirms, “I no longer endure the news, everything in it brings me to those days: sounds, analyzes, and pictures, I feel that I am still stuck there, I cannot go out.”
Just a month ago, Nabil returned to Aitron to inspect his land, stood in front of the ruins of his house and contemplated his remains silently.
At the end of the conversation, the words slide from his mouth as if they were coming out of a wound, “I do not want anything big, just sleeping for one night without seeing our house bombing, or running barefoot in the street while I was looking for my children.” He is silent for a while, then concluded, “We thought that the war ends when the missiles stopped, but we were wrong, there is another war that begins after the armistice.”
Psychological care
The president of the “Hana Development” association confirms in Lebanon Nawal Mahmoud, to Al -Jazeera Net, is the importance of providing psychological support to families displaced from southern Lebanon, especially for children who suffer from trauma.
It explains that the association carried out several activities within the psychological and social support program, targeting children and families to help them overcome psychological trauma and adapt to the difficult circumstances resulting from displacement.
The association noted – according to it – the profound negative effects of psychological crises such as panic and the loss of loved ones on people’s lives and social relationships, which were manifested in manifestations such as social isolation and difficulties in communication, as well as health problems such as sleep disturbances, problems with digestion, and shortness of breath.
According to Mahmoud, psychological support activities contributed to promoting mental health among the displaced and host society, and also helped to strengthen social relations, and some of the beneficiaries of these programs became leaders and volunteers in the association, in turn supporting others, after they gained the ability to face challenges.
And you see that these programs should be an integral part of the recovery and development plans, as the crises faced by the population, especially children and people with disabilities, leave deep psychological effects that must be taken into account when developing future policies and plans.
Activist Nawal Mahmoud confirms that psychological support activities and programs play a vital role in enhancing the ability of individuals to adapt to challenges and achieve achievements.