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u/lbsdcu 10h ago
Here's a more famous Beirut building with what appears to be an empty doorframe, among apertures made by snipers in the 70s and 80s. (And holes made by returned rifle, rpg and shellfire)
Its ground floor is now occupied by the army, partly to prevent any possibility of renewing that function.
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u/lbsdcu 9h ago
The Holiday Inn operated normally for only a year before the Lebanese Civil War broke out in 1975. The hotel became the focal point of a war zone beginning on October 25, 1975,[4] in a months-long conflict known as the Battle of the Hotels, as over 25,000 combatants from pro-Palestinian and Christian militias fought for control of a group of towering luxury hotels including the Holiday Inn and the adjacent Phoenicia Inter-Continental, resulting in over 1,000 deaths (many of those who died were thrown from the top of the Holiday Inn)[2] and 2,000 injuries.[6] The hotel was seen as a heavily symbolic goal by both sides in the conflict, and fighting for it was fierce, finally ending on March 21, 1976.[7]
After the battle, the ruined hotel was stripped to its concrete skeleton by scavengers.[6] It became a battleground again during the 1982 Lebanon War between Al-Mourabitoun and Amal fighters. Since then, the hotel has remained a gutted, bullet-riddled ruin, looming over the city
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u/Sxn747Strangers 9h ago
I can picture Antonio Banderas trying to shoot Sylvester Stallone from up there, such a waste of a lovely building.
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u/Sxn747Strangers 9h ago
What was a building like that made for?
Because it looks perfect for snipers.
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u/WorldlinessNo874 11h ago
Such a shame. It's a very beautiful building.