BEIRUT, Lebanon: In a classroom turned shelter for displaced families, teenager Ahmad Melhem follows a recorded lesson on a tablet as the war between Hezbollah and Israel interrupts education for hundreds of thousands of students in Lebanon.
“I don’t want to regret not finishing my studies despite the difficult circumstances,” said Melhem, whose family was displaced from Beirut’s southern suburbs, the site of repeated Israeli bombardment.
“We took a risk and went back to get schoolbooks,” he told AFP.
“We’re trying with everything we have to continue our education so we can achieve our goals,” said the 17-year-old, who hopes to study engineering after finishing high school.
Crisis-hit Lebanon was pulled into the Middle East war on March 2 when militant group Hezbollah fired rockets toward Israel to avenge the US-Israeli killing of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
