Amidst escalation between Israel and Iran, Lebanon presented an unusual contrast. Social media footage revealed a peculiar scene from a Beirut rooftop bar, where revellers continue their festivities whilst missiles traverse the night sky. The viral X video captures a trumpeter performing at a hotel as patrons, abandoning their meals, stand to record the events on their mobile phones. A DJ maintains the musical atmosphere throughout. One video displays the text “Meanwhile in Lebanon”.Another video showed the night sky full of missiles from a wedding event inn Lebanon.This stark juxtaposition follows Israel’s ‘Operation Rising Lion’ on June 13, which involved extensive aerial strikes on Iran. The campaign affected nuclear installations at Natanz, Fordow, and Esfahan, along with missile facilities, air defence networks, Tehran’s defence ministry headquarters, and vital energy structures.Israel says it launched its airstrike campaign to stop Iran from getting closer to being able to build a nuclear weapon. Iran and the United States had been negotiating over the possibility of a new diplomatic deal over Tehran’s program, though Trump has said Israel’s campaign came after a 60-day window he set for the talks.Iran’s supreme leader rejected US calls for surrender Wednesday and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause “irreparable damage to them.”
