Popular nightclub in Beirut turned into shelter for displaced Lebanese

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The Sky Bar, which is one of Beirut's most well-known nightclubs, has been turned into a shelter for displaced Lebanese residents amid ongoing Israeli raids.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00One of Beirut's most well-known nightclubs has been turned into a shelter for about 400

00:06displaced Lebanese amid ongoing Israeli attacks.

00:10The Sky Bar's humanitarian effort is sponsored by VIP guests who used to spend thousands

00:16of dollars a night at the nightclub.

00:17They asked me if I was going to spend the night. I said yes. They asked me how I prayed.

00:22I said I pray normally at the Sky Bar. It used to be a nightclub, but now it's a mosque.

00:27I don't know what a nightclub is.

00:57The Sky Bar team started by accepting some 70 people at the end of September, and they

01:11did not expect to be able to accommodate hundreds of adults and children.

01:15After the bombardment that happened, the first one of Hassan Nasrallah, everything shut down,

01:21everything stopped. So one of the owners was just passing by just to check the premises

01:28and stuff. So he saw a lot of people with no roofs, you know, just sitting by the street,

01:34no clothes on, barely things with them. So he was the one who asked if they needed to

01:40be sheltered, and they said yes. And this is how it started.

01:44We don't have a specific time because we don't really know when this is going to end. It

01:50could stay for a month, it can stay for days, we can wake up tomorrow with nothing. So until

01:56then we need to, you know, just be there, stand with our people, stand with each other

02:01and try as much as possible to do what's best for everyone.

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