A young girl leaps over a puddle of water in area known locally as Security Square in southern Beirut. Hezbollah is headquartered in this neighborhood of one square mile that has been destroyed by Israeli bomb attacks. (Wally Skalij / LAT)
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)
