Lebanese high school exchange students board a U.S. Air Force helicopter parked on the grounds of the American Embassy in Beirut. Sponsored by the Youth Exchange and Study (YES) scholarship program, 27 students destined for the United States were airlifted after weeks of uncertainty due to the war. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
Lebanese exchange students wait anxiously as a helicopter arrives at the U.S. Embassy in North Beirut to ferry them to Cyprus today. The YES scholarship program hosts more than 650 students from 28 countries to spend a year with American families throughout the country. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
A victim is rushed to an ambulance after being pulled from the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in the south Beirut neighborhood of Chiyah. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
Shaken residents rush away from the scene of a collapsed apartment building in the south Beirut neighborhood of Chiyah, where Israeli bombs struck. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
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Beiruti Rescue workers rush up a debris-littered street in an effort to save residents of a collapsed apartment building. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
An injured woman is brought to Al-Hayet Hospital in south Beirut after Israeli bombs destroyed an apartment complex in the nearby Chiyah neighborhood. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
Ali Mahmoud, bandaged, cringes in pain as a visitor greets him in his recovery room at Al-Hayet Hospital. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
Muhammed Abdulla Qarim resists a doctor’s efforts to treat his wounds at Al-Hayet Hospital in south Beirut after surviving an Israeli air strike. (Robert Gauthier / LAT)
