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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Bel Trew

Lebanon counts cost of the war between Israel and Hezbollah: ‘We need a miracle to rebuild’

Residents have returned to their destroyed homes in the southern suburbs of Beirut - (Bel Trew/The Independent)

Dwarfed by destruction, Imad Shami, 60, a Lebanese barber, stoops to feed an injured cat: an absurd snapshot of life against the graveyard of obliterated buildings around him.

The smashed landscape of the heavily populated Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut – largely under the control of Hezbollah – shows it was the focus of Israel’s ferocious bombardment.

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