In Lebanon, life goes on even as the region teeters on the edge of all-out war

In the southern Beirut neighbourhood of Dahiyeh, businesses opened and traffic jams continued as normal, even next to the building that was hit in an Israeli airstrike last week that killed Fouad Shukur, the Hezbollah commander, and six other people.

Nearby, Saad Baydoun was surveying the damage to his shops that offered internet and sound systems.

“All of what I had was here; my house was here, and it was destroyed. My family and I were…