Fear has gripped the approximately 2,500 residents who remained despite the war in Marjayoun, in southeastern Lebanon, a few kilometers from the Israeli border. Saturday May 30, as she emerged from a difficult night to the sound of Israeli bombings on Debbine, a Shiite village adjoining Marjayoun, Samar Labaki heard “a missile fall in the garden behind (her) house”. “We are no longer safe anywhere, it is very difficult to continue,” this head of secondary school at the Sisters of the Holy Hearts of Marjayoun confides by telephone, still in shock.
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