The Kenyan woman, 24, has been employed as a domestic servant in Lebanon for the past eight months. However, she claims that the last month has been particularly difficult due to Israel’s military intensifying its bombardment of targets throughout the nation that it claims are Hezbollah targets.
“The number of bombings was high. It was excessive. She told News Arabic, “My employers locked me in the house and left to save their own lives.”
The sound of explosives has traumatized Andaku. She can’t remember how many days she spent by herself in the house before her workers came back.
They kicked me out when they returned. She claims, “They never paid me and I had nowhere to go,” and that she was fortunate enough to have enough cash to take a bus to Beirut, the country’s capital.
The tale of Andaku is not unique.
After the Israel-Hezbollah confrontation escalated last Friday, the majority of Lebanon’s almost 900 government-organized shelters were full, according to UN officials, who also voiced concern for the tens of thousands of largely female domestic workers in the nation.
