Author: Lea Frehse

Grew up in Hamburg, studied international politics, history and development in Bremen, Buenos Aires and London. Followed the fall of Mubarak in Ramallah for AlJazeera and stayed in the Middle East for two and a half years as a freelance journalist. Between studies and jobs and constant travel, from Iran to Ethiopia. From 2019, she is Die Zeit’s Middle East correspondent, based in Beirut.

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“We Call Him The Unknown Patient” — Inside Lebanon’s Only Hospital Burn Unit

A man whose body was 50 per cent burned seen laying unconscious on a bed in the burns unit of Lebanon's Geitawi hospital.
A man whose body was 50 per cent burned seen laying unconscious on a bed in the burns unit of Lebanon's Geitawi hospital. Ximena Borrazas/ZUMA

As Israel’s air strikes on Lebanon intensify, following the unprecedented exploding pagers attack, the severely injured get care inside Geitawi General Hospital that aims to salvage their forever altered lives.

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