The war is not only raging in Gaza – fighting is also becoming increasingly fierce between the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Israeli army. Internally displaced people on both sides of the border are paying the price; there are 100,000 in Lebanon alone. People there think less and less about providing weapons to Hamas.
“This war was a big mistake,” says Mustafa al-Seyyed, 49, taking a drag on his cigarette. “Nobody here is for Hamas. We don’t care about Hamas. This war was forced on us.”
A run-down low-rise building with peeling plaster, surrounded by banana plantations and wild garbage dumps: Even in more peaceful times, the old vocational school on the outskirts of Tire in the far south of Lebanon was a desolate place. Then, six months ago, despair set in. Where lessons used to take place, there are now a few dozen large families living, one per classroom. They fled here from their villages in the hinterland. Because the battle zone begins behind the city limits of Tyre.
Source: Stern
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