Opposite Mona, her other son was holding an oxygen mask to his mouth and could not speak. She said it was because of the shock of what had happened.
“We didn’t leave in the previous war and we got used to it. Even through this, the children have sometimes played outside under the warplanes. After this hit I felt distress and I feared for them [but] they turned out to be tougher than me,” she said as her grandchildren smiled beside her.
The home of 69-year-old Entisar Yassine was also damaged by the impact of a strike, while she was on her wheelchair inside.
When the BBC arrived at the apartment with rescue workers, Entisar appeared scared and disorientated. She had attempted to clean some of the glass that had shattered in her apartment.
“I was very scared when that strike happened. I was already afraid, and my heart kept pounding from the panic and fear,” she later told the BBC from hospital.
She said she had “wanted to leave” but didn’t know where to go. Mona had her leg amputated two years ago because of a medical condition, and she worried that shelters would not have accessible toilets.
She said she hoped she would now be taken somewhere with suitable facilities, or with someone who could support her.
Until now “this war didn’t affect me, but today it did,” she said.
At a separate strike earlier in the day on Wednesday, firefighters battled for hours to put out a major fire that had hit a residential building with shops on the ground floor.
“We are in a market and these are shops. They are selling shoes and [clothes]. They are all civilians,” said a bystander, who gave his name only as Abu Mohammed.
While some have voiced anger to the BBC about Hezbollah’s decision to fire rockets into Israel earlier this month, Abu Mohammed said he supported the group, citing the ongoing Israeli strikes on Lebanon after the ceasefire.
“We could not rebuild our houses or return to our villages and cities while the Israelis were having a free hand there. Hezbollah needed to respond. It’s either you kill or get killed,” he said.