Year after ceasefire, peace eludes south Lebanon as Israeli strikes continue
Last Friday, at around 19:00, an Israeli air strike hit a car in a village in southern Lebanon called Froun. This part of the country is the heartland of the Shia Muslim community, and for decades has been under the sway of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shia militia and political party. On streets, banners with the faces of fighters killed in battle hang from lamp-posts, celebrating them as "martyrs of the resistance". I arrived in Froun an hour after the strike. Rescue workers had already removed the body parts of the only casualty - a man who ...
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