Mazen utilized to run a present and fragrance shop called Mazen Kado (French for present) in Mreijeh. He lived what he explained as a calm life with his cherished feline Cici, the star of his TikTok account.
When the battle began, he sentout his household to stay somewhereelse while he and Cici stayed. On one of the veryfirst days after the battle started, he stepped out to buy a coupleof things and while he was out, an air strike hit his structure.
“Cici was in the developing,” he informed Al Jazeera. “I attempted to cover my face with all the fire and smoke however I wasn’t able to go inside and bring her out. The structure was 10 floors high and it collapsed.”
In a video that went viral on his TikTok account, Mazen movies the debris of his structure and sobs audibly, shouting out for Cici. The remarks are primarily weeping dealswith or heartbreak emojis.
“Everything’s gone,” he informed Al Jazeera. “My home is gone … no issue, I’ll get another home. And as the days haveactually passed, whatever I owned is now gone. No issue.
“The thing that matters to me is if Cici is dead. God prepared, she didn’t passaway.”
Mazen hasn’t provided up on finding Cici. On his TikTok account, he still posts videos of the debris that was his home and calls out frantically for his missingouton feline, no matter how notlikely it is that Cici endured.
“I’m out looking every day,” he stated.
“I stay in Dahiyeh since I take care of the felines so they wear’t passaway,” he stated.
“I sleep in the street. One night I’ll sleep on the street, one night on a verandah, every night is various.
“I still live a calm life. I puton’t care about any celebration or sect, I’m a Lebanese male and I love life and felines and animals.”
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Dahiyeh’s once-bustling streets are now mainly deserted. Some individuals come back throughout the day, in the minutes they feel air strikes are less mostlikely, to grab clothing or check on their homes.
“The scenario is a catastrophe,” Younes stated. “Dahiyeh is gone.”
In 2006, war came to Dahiyeh when onceagain. Hezbollah and Israel combated a 34-day war in which more than 1,220 individuals were eliminated, the huge bulk of them individuals in Lebanon. Israel damaged about 245 structures and established a strategy of outofproportion damage that came to be called The Dahiyeh Doctrine.
Despite those previous wars, Younes’s household continued to grow in Dahiyeh. But now, some famil