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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Bel Trew

The forgotten victims of Israel’s bombing who hold little hope for Trump’s talk of ending the war

Sobbing, Fatima, 82, frantically searches for a tent to sleep in after fleeing a southern suburb of Beirut, just moments before an Israeli airstrike destroyed the buildings next to hers.

Together with her husband, she had clung on in their home in Dahiyeh. The predominantly Shia neighbourhood is home to an estimated half a million people. Israel has ordered its evacuation since opening a second theatre of war against the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, after joining the US in bombing Iran.

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