Aid workers warned, though, that Friday’s convoy fell significantly short of the 500 trucks that typically entered the territory every day before the war.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/24/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-hostage-deal.html

A man selling fried turnip pieces from a street stall is unrecognisable at first but then is seen to be Mr Samuels of Samuels’ Restaurant and Tea Rooms, a well-known West End meeting place famous for its fine bread and cream cakes before the war.

Source: https://www.budapesttimes.hu/books/if-nazi-jackboots-had-tramped-down-whitehall/

As one old man in a decrepit alleyway in Baghdad insisted to him that May, before the war turned sour, “The Americans who had brought all these tanks and planes would fix everything in a matter of weeks.”

Source: https://theintercept.com/2023/03/26/iraq-war-book-ghaith-abdul-ahad/

At the time, there was still little public discussion about the enormous toll the war had taken on the Jewish community; of some 140,000 Jews registered in the Netherlands before the war, about 104,000 were murdered in the Holocaust.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/15/books/marga-minco-dead.html

Deadly bloodshed had been worsening in the West Bank even before the war in the Gaza Strip erupted.

Source: https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/12-palestinians-killed-west-bank-mosque-desecrated-in-israel-raids-4675339

Even before the war, experts pointed to a distinct set of ideas and beliefs coming from the Russian President, centred on rejecting the West and Russian imperialism, that were shaping Russia.

Source: https://www.euronews.com/2023/05/18/the-rise-and-fall-of-z-what-ever-happened-to-russias-talismanic-symbol

Even before the war, law enforcement would be invited to lecture the schoolchildren on “crime prevention.”

Source: https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-anti-war-drawing-cost-your-daughter-yefremov-tula/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication

Even before the war, Mr Netanyahu’s government was staunchly opposed to Palestinian statehood.

Source: https://www.alloaadvertiser.com/news/national/23917947.air-strikes-pound-gaza-city-israeli-ground-forces-battle-hamas-near-hospital/?ref=rss

Food prices have fallen for 11 straight months, but food was already expensive before the war because of droughts from the Americas to the Middle East — most devastating in the Horn of Africa, with thousands dying in Somalia.

Source: https://www.columbian.com/news/2023/mar/18/russia-ukraine-extend-grain-deal-to-aid-worlds-poor/

Having gone to college in Moscow, he has many close friends there and holidayed in Russia just weeks before the war began.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ukraine-war-russia-silicon-valley-zelensky-b2287962.html

He described the shocked reaction of UK intelligence chiefs when informed in 2001 - two years before the war - that the US was determined to bring down Saddam Hussein by force.

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tony-blair-usa-sunak-biden-b2299881.html

He was obsessed with finding the girl he loved before the war.

Source: https://metropolisjapan.com/the-survivor-movie-review/

In any case, it’s likely that more people died or were wounded in the fighting than the 70,000 residents of Bakhmut before the war; a population now almost completely gone, save for a few dozen desperate souls hiding out in basements.

Source: https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-little-for-russia-to-celebrate-in-fall-of-bakhmut/

I think we never get to talk about her family much in this story, which she lost right before the war, and I think they're a huge driving force for her.

Source: https://collider.com/yellowjackets-sophie-nelisse-interview-irenas-vow/

It’s unlike anything we ever did before the war.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/23/ukraine-musicians-fighting-frontline-pop-classical-music-boombox

Jamal Kaoud was visiting Gaza with his brothers on vacation before the war broke out, his daughter said, adding the 68-year-old wears a pacemaker and defibrillator, and is “running out of his daily medication.”

Source: https://www.dailynews.com/2023/10/27/daughters-of-palestinian-americans-trapped-in-gaza-plead-for-humanitarian-aid-and-families-safe-return/

‘My last profession before the war was as a music therapist, since I obtained a second degree in psychology and decided to combine it with music.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2023/12/22/ukrainian-soldiers-reveal-wish-christmas-20017025/

Poland had been preparing for a wave of refugees from Ukraine even before the war broke out.

Source: https://cyprus-mail.com/2023/05/20/putins-war-united-europe/

Putin continued to speak with the French and German Minsk brokers of the agreement in the days right before the war.

Source: https://original.antiwar.com/ted_snider/2023/01/09/why-russia-went-to-war-in-2022/

Spzilman (a wonderful Daniel Donskoy) and his family are seen right before the war and then through the effects that followed.

Source: https://t2conline.com/the-pianist-a-better-film-than-play/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-pianist-a-better-film-than-play