Guests look up at the light-up sky while a saxophone plays in the background. Visuals of a restaurant, people surfing social media. These are not fireworks—this is the sight of missiles being fired at Israel, seen through the rooftop of Lebanon.
It makes the world wonder: are people in the Middle East immune to drone hums, rocket streaks, and jet contrails? The constant aerial activity isn’t just military—it’s psychological warfare.
Footage of people filming explosions and falling debris reflects how normal, yet surreal, the situation is. Or perhaps it’s a coping mechanism: that if you can capture it, it feels less overwhelming.
Can someone even imagine the amount of trauma these people face? Women in southern Lebanon have said: You don’t know if it’s coming for you or not, but if you keep listening, that kills you more than anything.
The psychological impact on Lebanese people is intense. That’s the normalization of fear. There’s a dark humor culture that inflicts deeper trauma, because if you can joke about it, maybe you can survive it.
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