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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Bel Trew

Ghost towns rattled by sporadic gunfire: Tensions run high in fragile Lebanese-Israeli ceasefire

The top of a destroyed mosque in Bint Jbeil, southern Lebanon - (Bel Trew)

A stutter of gunfire rips through the silence that envelops the destroyed centre of Bint Jbeil, a southern Lebanese town just three kilometres from the border with Israel.

“Did you hear that?” a member of Hezbollah asks, dwarfed by the smashed remains of a central marketplace. “This is what we call violating the ceasefire.”

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