Australia’s Melbourne Even the suburbs of Sydney and Melbourne have felt the effects of Israel’s deadly bombing of Lebanon.
Israel’s most recent war on Lebanon has sparked a fresh wave of trauma in Melbourne’s Coburg and Sydney’s Bankstown neighborhoods, where Australia’s thriving Lebanese community is evident in the local eateries, stores, and places of worship.
Michael Kheirallah, the founder and head of the Victorian Lebanese Community Council, told Al Jazeera that he believes 99 percent of Lebanese living in Australia still have family in Lebanon.
He claimed that this is the reason why the public watches the news nearly nonstop.
“A few of them told me that they hadn’t slept for nearly two nights, particularly when the bombing in Beirut began.”
