On Thursday, November 12^th, the Lebanese city of Beirut was hit with a deadly attack.  A pair of suicide bombings occurred less than 150 meters from one another in an open-air market in the Bourj-al-Barajneh district in the southern part of the city.  Eyewitnesses report that there was a great commotion and shattered glass and blood covered the streets.  The attack lasted only five minutes.

During the attack, one man acted very heroically.  Adel Termos was drinking coffee in the market when the first bomb was detonated.  In all the commotion, he was able to identify another bomber, who was reportedly headed for a mosque.  Termos jumped on the bomber and held him down as the bomb exploded.  Through his valiant actions, young Adel Termos saved the lives of over two hundred individuals.  He leaves behind a wife and two small children.

In total, forty-three innocent individuals lost their lives in the bombings and many families are left to grieve.  An additional two hundred and thirty-nine people were seriously wounded.  At least four buildings in the district were also damaged by the bombs.

One would-be suicide bomber survived the attack and was immediately taken into custody.  He informed the Lebanese investigators that he was an ISIS recruit and had arrived in Lebanon only a few days earlier.  The man said that the four suicide bombers had traveled together from Syria.

ISIS later posted a statement on social media in which they claimed responsibility for the horrible attack.  They would later also claim responsibility for the deadly attack that occurred only a day later in Paris, France.

Hezbollah, a Shiite militia, has a prominent position in the neighborhood where the bombs were detonated.  Three members of that group were killed during the attack.  However, the group does not appear to have been a target for the suicide bombers.

Citizens of Beirut, Lebanon, are urged to stay away from the Bourj-al-Barajneh district for the time being.  Friday, November 13^th, was declared a day of mourning for all the victims by Prime Minister Tamman Salam.  The Lebanese government has also declared that the attacks were an act of terrorism.  However, the bombings in Beirut have not received much attention from the media or the international community as they have been overshadowed by the horrible attacks in Paris on Friday, November 13^th.