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Al Jazeera
Justin Salhani

Lebanese see hope and beauty ahead in fragile ceasefire

Ivana Skakye, a two-year-old with third-degree burns over 40 percent of her body, receives treatment on October 29, 2024, at Beirut's Geitaoui Hospital after an Israeli air strike hit near her home in southern Lebanon [Hussein Malla/AP Photo]

Beirut, Lebanon – For the past two months, St Francis Church in Hamra has taken in displaced families from southern Lebanon and Dahiyeh, a constellation of Beirut suburbs.

It’s been a difficult time for many of the families who fled Israeli bombing and a ground offensive in the south, but since early Wednesday when a ceasefire came into effect, there has been a different energy in the air.

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