Volunteers risk lives to retrieve pets from bombed out south Beirut

Maggie Shaarawi, vice president of the Animals Lebanon charity, is one of the rescuers. "A lot of people had to evacuate their homes in a hurry. In most cases, cats stressed by bombing hide," making it impossible to scoop them up quickly, she said. "Our goal is to just enter, rescue and leave." On Thursday, Shaarawi and two others helped a resident of Beirut's southern suburbs retrieve her eight traumatised cats. Through a video call, the worried woman in a white headscarf guided them to the living room where she had herded Fifi...