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a correspondence with any breaking the story you want to hear from those people who would normally not heard on the international news channels. one moment i'll be very proud of when we covered the napoleon wake of 2015, a terrible natural disaster. and a story that needed to be told from the heart of the affected area. to be that the tell the people story was very important at the time the control and you control of the region around. and that's why it was such a bloody battle. important thing if you were walking around and they root was not to be in the line of fire from the holiday in the battle of holiday in completed the division of the root into 2 sectors,

east and west beta. the follow up with us for belgian, the shop for you can plug me from the most powerful building in the city for me is the holiday yet. ah, more hotels are buildings that function as normal hotels but often in the context of real instability. ah ah ah ah, a route, once a jewel in the mediterranean,

been torn upon by war. this is the seafront of the lebanese capital today, around 3 decades after the end of the civil war. the devastating conflict lasted for 15 years. this street was the green line, dividing by route into east and west. dominating the front line was this concrete skeleton. what was once the holiday in its wool still pattered by the scars of war. a grotesque witness to the years of separation, killing, and destruction. ah, my name is tom young, i'm a painter and architectural activist from england. and i've lived in beirut about 8

years. i'm particularly inspired by the memories and the feelings, the emotions that embedded in the walls of the buildings and by the most powerful building in the city for me is the holiday in his famous eye clinic, it's like a joint tomb which remains in the center of the city like an unresolved scar. the holiday inn is still a stark reminder of war we have yet to heal. even today. the, the 13th of april, 1975 was the official start date of divine. and this was

a proxy conflict fort during the cold war era on one side, lebanese right wing parties, backed by the united states, aiming to expel, armed palestinian groups from lebanon. on the other left wing parties allied with the pillow and backed by the soviet union, who sold the right wing christians as an extension of israeli and american influence in lebanon. only 2 weeks off to be route here up to the south vietnamese, capital saigon fell to the communists, ending over 19 years of conflict in viet nam televisions. first war now came lebanon. the maze of reporters and war, photographers moved from southeast asia to the middle east. and began to occupy bay

route hotel rooms filled up with a news crews. and a new chapter of the cold war began i, most of the correspondence, tv crews and photographers checked into this hotel, the commodore, a safe haven in the west of the city in every day. they would set off from here for downtown bay route for the main hotel district, where the holiday inn was the front line. the in the holiday inn was a war hotel in the sense that it was part of an urban battle. a battle between 2 factions of the strategic heights, but it wasn't a presto tale. so none of the journalist covering the one bedroom stayed in holiday and the holiday in became one of the 1st significant physical manifestations of the of the conflict. my name is kenneth morrison and professor view to p in history.

one of my key research interests in the history of war, hotel war hotels are buildings that function as normal hotels, but often in the context of real instability. so i look at numerous hotels. saudi was holiday in beta, it's commodore, but also the hotel you'd open belfast for example, the lead your palace into kasey, a cyprus. all of these hotels have continued to function throughout this period of instability. some are in the real midst of an urban conflict. a war hotel emerges out of a history where journalists over a long period before was start of somehow find it a congenial place to be a watering hole convenient near the center of activity in the city where the politics happens, where the culture happens, where you meet people, the hotels which made a route to the tourist center of the middle east. and i'm john who will be and i've

long been a reporter, reporting more over the world. and therefore, i been in wars and most memorable amongst these was the experience of reporting from the lebanese civil war in the 1900 seventy's. this was once the richest part of the richest city in the middle east. i 1st went to lebanon in 1972, as a young reporter. my very 1st article for a magazine here called the new statesman in which i effectively said, this place is waiting to blow. all it needs is a spark because of the complexity of this very small country, surrounded by competing nations, ah, from the 1950 to the early seventy's. they root with the magnets for the international pleasure seeking a lead they route hotel district was at the heart of its luxury

tourism economy making its a favorite jet set destination. the one we speak about bay roots golden age. as the switzerland of the middle east. we are actually talking about an area, the district that is very specific product of a precise 2 political project. my name is sarah for nathan. i'm a political geographer who is based at the university of birmingham. i am interested in hotels and urban conflict. holiday in came quite late in the day in 1974. it was opened. it came quite late in the day in 2 days or tell district which was considered a playground for celebrities and politicians. and diplomats,

in spite of the hotel district started life in the 1920s. when the st. george opened for 4 decades. it was one of the most prestigious hotels on the mediterranean during the cold war, in the 19 fifties and sixties, the bar of the st. george was described as a revolving door of information. the british double agent can fill, be with irregular. he operated on the cover as a foreign journalist and on the 30th of january, 1963 was spotted for the last time at the bar in the saint george. before disappearing in beirut and reappearing a few months later in moscow. in more smart hotels sprang up, including the phoenician, even more luxurious than the saint george. but when the holiday inn arrived in

1974, it was not only the tallest, but also the last to open before the civil war broke out. i remember the experience of the phoenician and i went to the holiday in different scales of hotel, but both of them pretty luxurious hotels. the phoenician was very grand indeed the holiday inn was a holiday and but a very up market holiday. and so there was plenty of chrome, plenty of silver, plenty of gold colored drapes. it was done very much in the style that the arab world likes. morning, can i fi is denisa san jose and san jose settled before hartford. hi, lee. well, i me comes our move over there to how to bill li liability. i'm sorry. what are they in the stand? the stand alone they in the he came, michel,

the shuttle is easy. will name mom or fund was a bit the fair. our matter about missed our land the see can hailey, how does the good hello and to show them and be there to how to lee can fema s i be the li, be elaborately breach? can i but as a whole lot on the hello to tier of us and i can live channels to contaminate because only who will live mostly shaded, by the way to m as in my home. i'm not sure if i can nominate. i'm going to be levied. shall have been watkins, and i'm a hold. then i will not sure of the creation. oh, perfect. see linda. see that even on our, on our be they all just told me young wanted to get inside the building today. but to do that, he had to get permission, not only from the owners, but from the lebanese army, which still controls it as

a strategically sensitive location. young wanted to indulge his passion painting. i finally got the chance to go inside. and my, my, my media feeling was one of just overwhelming emotion. i felt sad, i felt, i felt horror, but i felt amazing. ah, when i started my project for the holiday inn, and so i started painting it from the outside from many viewpoint. and then i discovered that the parents of a very good friend of mine, i had that still refer her parents, sammy and finance. dad. actually,

not only live next to the holiday inn and have a fantastic view of it from the balcony. and that possibly one of the very few people in lebanon who had the wedding reception dinner in the holiday, in the family, had those at home for 40 and then i wasn't let what's, i mean, what about 17, can it she and how do you all holiday and be on in the on i'm a half lee, i shut off and i bought my gentlemen as the way. and then when i was now the stumble was half leak in it half the hallway on a 2nd. okay. and what was that kid had? where kilometer me as i was in tone, my head with 2 guns, very simple mckenna,

mazda, and had that had been on this when the machine shot on the machine in, or is it going to this on the bar? ah, holly about russia national minimum and has an additional idea on the ship that that can have that comes here in 10 and not getting the muscles in and can min oh it initially. yeah. and you can, and when, when i said, remember only the n y, that even the c d credited the new little heart of men to hold it in me. seeing the building for a few understand the context within the city and what it must have meant in the civil war. i use this very bright red, which expresses this,

the blood that's been spilled and the violence and the fire, and the hage, and the anger. and every time i flash it the, the paint, it's a way of going through that anger and that violence and honoring that. and i also raise it as if that itself is the erasure of memory. the, when the civil war started in april 975, the p a low when the lebanese national movement for the maronite christian for lunch party, the violence was triggered by the so called, buff incident on the 13th of april. when fighters from the for lunch palsy opened fire on the bus, carrying palestinians as it drove through that stronghold of a romani. 26 palestinians were killed and dozens wounded, unleashing what became a living hell on the streets of a roof,

which spread rapidly throughout lebanon. there was street fighting and shilling. there was snipers than kidnapping. i'm sick, terry and massacres across the religious divide. the christian for lungess, militias were based in east bay route, but gradually took control of the main downtown streets in the west of the city. the strategic port and the hotel district, including the saint george, the phoenician, the hilton, and the holiday inn. on the 24th of october, 1975 left wing mosley militias and palestinian. all the groups under the umbrella of the national movement launched a massive offensive to try and regain control of the hotel district which straddled east and west with the battle of the hotels, 197-5976, was,

was simply a battle for control of the strategic heights, he who controlled the strategic heights could essentially dictate terms so controlling these buildings in the hotel district, the hide ice buildings became extremely important for the militias. i had a magic. can be de soto with mr. kayla from the essential which had to hold an old lady. well, well, by that. and when ours had been a son, george will be nice. the munition fighters started moving upwards and they started going on top of towers. one ease bush on more. another one is only day in the news. a few days in to the battle of the hotels. the

guests had completely abandoned the entire district and evacuated to the neighboring mediterranean island of cyprus. soon after the upper floors of the holiday inn was set on fire by intensive shilling. the fighting on the ground spread into what was called sector for where the free lunches had begun. using the help in the night. the base in the days leading up to the start of the civil war, the bay roots hilton, had been preparing for its grand opening. but that never took place. instead, militias, on both sides checked in before any v, i p, guessed this rare archive video shows the moment when left wing fighters seized the lobby of the hilton after the free lunches had withdrawn to their

positions in the holiday. in the important thing, if you were walking around in beirut was not to be in the line of fire from the holiday. and yes, my name is tim went and i was the bbc's middle east correspondence in beirut in the seventy's, eighty's and ninety's. i was in beirut during the much of the lebanese civil war. i remember once trying to get down to the holiday inn to try and make some sort of effort to get into it, to interview the, the lunches. and just as i was getting to the point in an area code, i mariah i see where you would come right. rand aqona into the face of the gunfire started. i scuttled back, there was a dead body lying up the streets. it was all rather sinister. i fled back to the hotel. i'm afraid it wasn't one of my brave days. but did some people did get across to the holiday inn?

on the 20th of march, 1976, the so called lebanese and palestinian joined forces launched their strongest attack. yes, against the for lunch in the hotel district. their aim was to control all key positions. but especially the highly strategic holiday in control the holiday in. and you control the region around. so you, you took the holiday in, if you possibly could. and that's why it was such a bloody battle the holiday and then it's surround blames for 3 days as opposing militias by the control. no one knew which way the fighting was going. not even the lebanese and foreign journalists who reported on the national movement 1st incursion into the hotel lobby. fair to earlier to learn what i before, and i'm

a little be handled last effort. no, mon cook, man, i'm not sure what i'm going to be on. i'm in the a small group of christian for lunches said, moneys to hide inside the hotel, killed a senior national movement commander for making their way up to the top on the 24th floor. barger folder, hey, call us up and stuff for bellis, and go to the shop for you and i would love to have it. yeah, that was study feedback and i'm not sure for the loan or what i'm a little bit out of our show any,

any luck on some subtle to say otherwise thought i could always use your mike at the, at the images of the sniper dropping 24 floors to his death on the street under the militia, celebrating for the cameras, have become symbols of the fall of the holiday in me through that bottle. that happened room by room floor by floor stairway stair. the battle of holiday in completed the division of the route through the green line into 2 sectors, east and west beta. and this partition remained over the course of the 2 following days. and it passed by the oddity. no one will ever know how many heroes died here in the holiday in. the battle lasted 3 days and 3 nights and there were no prisoners at the end. jonathan nimble be reported on several overseas,

was for british commercial broadcaster i t, v for it and was one of the 1st foreign journalists to enter the holiday inn and document the aftermath of the fighting there. smouldering ruins of what had been this very popular resort hotel. and he looked at him a thought. this is what we do to one another. as hotel. and now is the shelf total show? light bulbs hanging down off of the wall. wall wires, chairs smashed up a piano that was in there somehow. it's was born as survived the chandeliers, all like this, broken, this sort of looking bizarrely, like gargoyles staring down at what humanity had done to itself below the vision. it will not be surprising vision. but it was surprising that that could happen in beirut. oh,

i the green line, of course, in the civil war was a place with flowers and trees grew abundant. and so i was a reference to that. but it's also a way of envisioning some brighter future kind of sense of hope that might spring up in the ruin of the past. i today around 3 decades on from the end of the civil war. the complexity of lebanon's sectarianism and the geo politics of the region means the country and its people are still struggling to recover from its effect. the majority of the hotel

district has been rebuilt. oh, the enormous shell of the holiday inn still towers over downtown, awaiting its fate. no more green line for it to look down on today. but the monument to 15 years of struggle continues to attract visitors, historians, artists, and filmmakers. all seeking to understand the events of the seventy's and 18. ah, more than any of the ravaged building, surviving the conflict. it surely deserves the title war hotel. i a reporter's retreat in a brutal civil war. if a commodore hadn't been there,

the israeli invasion would not have been so well reported. the commodore had become a journalist center. you could be in a safe enclave and then you went out into civil war. i started off leaving this other grand street. the commodore hotel, the next room i was in, was underground in a tiny prison. so as a hostage, a route to commodore war hotels on al jazeera. did you know, you can watch out for english streaming live and i do 2 channels. plus thousands of our programs award winning documentaries. and do get to choose to scribe. you choose dot com. forward slash al jazeera english, a weekly critique of the stories hitting the headlines. the news media have been left a sort through nick messaging on a quite complex story from mainstream street journal is been me, get it, get me to send it to the wall and what's going on,

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