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Garden of al-Zahra: A Christian martyr for the resistance

In Beirut's southern suburbs, residents bid farewell to their martyrs from "Black Wednesday" at the Garden of al-Zahra, where a survivor emerges from rubble that killed his entire family — father, mother, brother, and three children — leaving him with a broken shoulder and burns.

A father holds his son's remains in pieces, declaring he no longer fears what Israel can do, because three angels now intercede for him in Paradise.

At a community kitchen, a chef named Mrs. Balqis cooks daily for over a million and a half displaced, rationing even chicken burgers as luxuries, and breaks down when adults tell her they no longer expect proper food.

She prepares a birthday meal with toys for a little girl named Zaytouna, admitting she cannot truly change their pain — only give them one happy moment.

At a funeral that draws unexpected crowds, the documentary reveals martyr Adam, an Armenian Christian who had no land or home in the south but went to fight with the resistance, declaring that Shia homes are his homes.

Christian families gather in the Garden of Martyrs, chanting "Labayka ya Hussain" — answering the same call as the Shia — to prove Lebanon's sects are not divided.

A displaced mother of thirty family members, living with six children in three bedrooms plus tents on the roof, says she fled without packing anything as shelling erased her neighborhood.

Children sing hope to Lebanon, believing they will return to the southern suburb Israel bombs without reason.

The episode closes with the same vow to recite Qur'an all night, as the displaced insist: they will go back victorious or not at all.


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