'I need to be strong for my family': A Lebanese mother on working for Trocaire amid conflict

Amena Hareb with her children. Amena, who works for Trocaire in Lebanon, has described her efforts to stay strong for her three children as bombs fall in Beirut. Photo: Amena Hareb/PA

A mother who works for an Irish charity in Lebanon has told how she tries to stay strong for her three children as their country is bombed.

Amena Hareb said she first told her three-year-old son Suleman that an attack on her home village in south Lebanon was balloons in the sky.