On Tuesday December 6, tens of thousands of Lebanese Shia Muslims gathered in Dahiyeh, the suburbs south of Beirut bombed by Israel in 2006, to commemorate the Ashoura holiday. The tenth day of Muharram - the first month in the Islamic calendar - is marked annually by Shia who mourn the killing of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohamed, in Karbala, modern day Iraq, in the year 680.
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On Tuesday December 6, tens of thousands of Lebanese Shia Muslims gathered in Dahiyeh, the suburbs south of Beirut bombed by Israel in 2006, to commemorate the Ashoura holiday. The tenth day of Muharram - the first month in the Islamic calendar - is marked annually by Shia who mourn the killing of Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohamed, in Karbala, modern day Iraq, in the year 680.

Source: aljazeera.com