Wassim Fakhri plays with a toy gun in south Beirut’s so-called Security Square. (Wally Skalij / LAT)
Mahmoud Moussa Zaaroor holds his son Ali, 2, next to where he lost his apartment. Israeli forces’ month-long bombing campaign has reduced most of the neighborhoods of Bir Abed and Hrat Hreik to rubble. (Wally Skalij / LAT)
A Mickey Mouse doll lies in the debris. (Wally Skalij / LAT)
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A man stands in front of buildings destroyed by an almost daily barrage of missiles, bombs and gunship artillery. A quarter of Lebanon’s population has been forced out of their homes, and as many as 200,000 of the estimated 1 million evacuees may have no home to return to when the war is over, according to the country’s Economy and Trade Ministry. (Wally Skalij / LAT)
