A youth holds a cat to his chest as people who fled their villages in southern Lebanon are received at an art institute transformed to a place for receiving persons displaced by conflict, in Beirut on September 23, 2024. Israeli air strikes killed 274 people, including 21 children, in south Lebanon on September 23, the Lebanese health minister said, in by far the deadliest cross-border escalation since war erupted in Gaza on October 7. (Photo by FADEL ITANI / AFP)