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Netanyahu’s appeal to the Lebanese people falls on deaf ears in Beirut
ReutersIsrael’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appealed directly to the people of Lebanon in a video published on Tuesday, telling them to turn against the Iran-backed Shia group Hezbollah or risk destruction on the scale of Gaza.
“Christians, Druze, Muslims Sunni and Shia, all of you are suffering because of Hezbollah’s futile war against Israel,” he said. “Stand up and take your country back.”
But in Shia, Sunni and Christian neighbourhoods of Beirut on Wednesday morning, Netanyahu’s appeal was falling largely – if not entirely – on deaf ears.
“Yes we heard the address but nobody here listens to Netanyahu,” said Yusuf Habbal, 31, as he cut pieces of the traditional Lebanese sweet Kunafah in his shop in Tariq El Jdideh, a Sunni area.
“Nobody told Netanyahu to occupy Palestine, nobody told him to occupy Lebanon. It is the Israelis who are driving this conflict.”
But Habbal and his fellow Sunnis “also do not accept what Hezbollah is doing”, he said.
“Before Netanyahu ever spoke about Hezbollah, we were against them. Beiruti people know that Hezbollah has their own agenda. And now they are driving us into a war we do not want.”
Joel Gunter/BBCHezbollah, which is a better-armed and more powerful force in Lebanon than the country’s own military, began firing rockets into northern Israel a year ago, in support for Hamas the day after the brutal 7 October attack.
The Hezbollah rockets signalled the beginning of a new phase of its clash with Israel. Last month, Israel escalated that simmering conflict when it expanded its bombing campaign of Lebanon, including in Beirut, before launching a ground invasion in the south of the country.
“They are striking very close to us now and it is terrifying,” said Mohammed Khair, 43, as he had his hair cut in a barber shop in Tariq El Jdideh.
“Nobody here wants this war, but nobody is going to be turned against Hezbollah by something Netanyahu said in a video,” he said.
Netanyahu was “always talking to the Palestinians, to the Lebanese,” said Tarraf Nasser, a 76-year-old retiree who was passing by the barber shop. “Nobody listens to Netanyahu,” he said. “He is not really talking to us.”
Joel Gunter/BBCIn Achrafieh, Beirut’s main Christian neighbourhood, there was a sense of futility at the Lebanese people’s ability to heed Netanyahu’s advice, even if they wanted to.
Antoine, a 75-year-old Catholic retiree, who asked to be identified only by his first name, was smoking a cigarette outside the neighbourhood’s Brewholic Café.
“Benjamin Netanyahu is the prime minister of Israel, not Lebanon. He should take care of his people, not ours,” Antoine said.
“At the same time, it is true that we have to do something to be free from the influence of Iran. But we don’t have weapons and we don’t have politicians who can be truly Lebanese. All our politicians are affiliated to other states or groups, mostly Iran.”
Nobody in Lebanon was going to have domestic conflict because Netanyahu instructed them to, Antoine said. “We will do that on our own.”
Across the road in her shoe shop, Maya Habib, 35, gave a tired shrug at the Israeli prime minister’s video appeal. “Everyone here knows that Israel lies,” she said. “But listen, maybe he has a point. He warned everyone – don’t attack us, don’t come close to us, and it won’t be your war. Now it is.”
Among the Christians of Achrafieh, “people are paying attention” to Netanyahu, Habib said. “But nobody can do anything anyway,” she said, shrugging again. “We don’t even have a president. Netanyahu is saying all the weapons should go to the Lebanese army, but how?”
Joel Gunter/BBCHezbollah can still rely on staunch support in the neighbourhoods where it is the dominant force in political and social life, and among the Shia communities of mixed areas. Several Shia residents of the Mar Elias neighbourhood said they stood completely behind the group.
“We are all Hezbollah here, whatever Hezbollah does we will support them,” said Fadi Ali Kiryani, a 52-year-old corner shop owner. Like other people in Mar Elias, Kiryani said he was not concerned by Netanyahu’s threat that Lebanon would suffer the same destruction and suffering as Gaza.
“Even if it becomes worse here than Gaza, we will still fly the flag,” he said.
“My house in Dahieh has already been destroyed. I would rather my house was gone than the shoe on the foot of one Hezbollah fighter was damaged.”
Sitting behind the desk of her 40-year-old towel and bedlinens shop, 75-year-old Fany Sharara said that Hezbollah was the only force defending the people of Lebanon.
“Nothing Netanyahu could say could change my mind,” she said. “He is a criminal, an assassin, he cannot leave one child alive.”
Israel had “all of Europe and all of America” on its side, Sharara added. “We are with Hezbollah because they are the only ones defending us. Not the Lebanese government.”
A few doors down, and a few years younger, 24-year-old jewellery shop owner Ali Shoura was simply weary of everyone involved, he said. “Nobody really cares – the politicians, the people in power, the Lebanese government, Iran, Israel, America, Hezbollah too.”
He shook his head. “It’s all just theatre,” he said. “And we are all the victims.”
Joanna Mazjoub contributed to this report.
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Mulher alimenta pássaros livres na janela do apartamento e tem o melhor bom dia, diariamente; vídeo
Todos os dias de manhã, essa mulher começa a rotina com uma cena emocionante: alimenta vários pássaros livres que chegam à janela do apartamento dela, bem na hora do café. Ela gravou as imagens e o vídeo é tão incrível que já acumula mais de 1 milhão de visualizações.
Cecilia Monteiro, de São Paulo, tem o mesmo ritual. Entre alpiste e frutas coloridas, ela conversa com as aves e dá até nomes para elas.
Nas imagens, ela aparece espalhando delicadamente comida para os pássaros, que chegam aos poucos e transformam a janela num pedacinho de floresta urbana. “Bom dia. Chegaram cedinho hoje, hein?”, brinca Cecilia, enquanto as aves fazem a festa com o banquete.
Amor e semente
Todos os dias Cecilia acorda e vai direto preparar a comida das aves livres.
Ela oferece porções de alpiste e frutas frescas e arruma tudo na borda da janela para os pequenos visitantes.
E faz isso com tanto amor e carinho que a gratidão da natureza é visível.
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Cantos de agradecimento
E a recompensa vem em forma de asas e cantos.
Maritacas, sabiás, rolinha e até uma pomba muito ousada resolveu participar da festa.
O ambiente se transforma com todas as aves cantando e se deliciando.
Vai dizer que essa não é a melhor forma de começar o dia?
Liberdade e confiança
O que mais chama a atenção é a relação de respeito entre a mulher e as aves.
Nada de gaiolas ou cercados. Os pássaros vêm porque querem. E voltam porque confiam nela.
“Podem vir, podem vir”, diz ela na legenda do vídeo.
Internautas apaixonados
O vídeo se tornou viral e emocionou milhares de pessoas nas redes sociais.
Os comentários vão de elogios carinhosos a relatos de seguidores que se sentiram inspirados a fazer o mesmo.
“O nome disso é riqueza! De alma, de vida, de generosidade!”, disse um.
“Pra mim quem conquista os animais assim é gente de coração puro, que benção, moça”, compartilhou um segundo.
Olha que fofura essa janela movimentada, cheia de aves:
Cecila tem a mesma rotina todos os dias. Põe comida para os pássaros livres na janela do apartamento dela em SP. – Foto: @cecidasaves/TikTok
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