In a frontline Lebanese orphanage, girls strive for a normal life

TEBNIN, Lebanon: Deep in war-ravaged southern Lebanon, just a few hundred meters from territory occupied by Israeli troops, Inaya Sultan is trying very hard to be a normal 13-year-old. She makes beaded bracelets for her 4-year-old half-sister Malak, dreams of studying medicine and spends time with the girls she affectionately calls her “besties” who live with her in an orphanage in the southern town of Tebnin. Founded in 1978 during the Israeli military’s last occupation of southern Lebanon,

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