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00:00Behind every forced displacement in Beirut is a story of survival.
00:05When the Israeli strikes began last year,
00:07Fadi and his family had to flee their home urgently and abandon their lives.
00:13We're talking about a displacement of only six kilometers, but it's still an exile.
00:17Exile is exile, no matter the distance.
00:23Before we were able to sleep peacefully,
00:25but now my children wake up after dreaming of explosions.
00:29The war is over, but the psychological effects remain.
00:32My son asks me, why is Israel attacking us?
00:38Abu Fadi provided a safe place for his relatives.
00:42He's clinging to the hope of a peaceful future,
00:45trusting that Lebanon is starting to pull out of a long-running political crisis
00:49now the country finally has a president after a two-year vacancy.
00:55We're staying optimistic.
00:57We have a president again. That's light in the darkness.
01:04During the strikes, other people tried to provide that light.
01:08In Beirut's Shemezeh neighborhood, Nabil turned his home into a temporary refuge.
01:13It exploded with telephone calls. They needed places to stay.
01:16It was a privilege to help people.
01:19When the ceasefire was agreed, they went back again to the south.
01:23We call each other, we ask how we are.
01:25They check up on me, I check up on them.
01:28Back with the family, six-year-old Mortada has a dream for the future.
01:32But I want to live in another place where there is a greenhouse.
01:41Returning home remains just a dream for many of the
01:43one million people across Lebanon displaced by the conflict.