Volunteers risk lives to retrieve pets from bombed out south Beirut

A woman carries a cat past a destroyed building at the site of an overnight Israeli airstrike in Beirut's southern suburb of Shayyah on October 2, 2024. At least five Israeli strikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs early October 2, a Lebanese security source said, as the Israeli military said it was targeting Hezbollah sites and issued several evacuation orders. [AFP]

After Israeli bombardment forced them to flee their homes in haste, displaced Lebanese have been asking volunteers to enter their bombed-out neighbourhoods to retrieve their pets.

Maggie Shaarawi, vice president of the Animals Lebanon charity, is one of the rescuers.