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"My mother has been sleeping fully clothed for several days. She wants to be ready in case of an alert," says Rita. The young woman lives in Beirut, far from the border with Israel, as does her family. But anxiety has been palpable throughout Lebanon since the Hamas attack on the Jewish state. The sense of insecurity is even stronger among the residents of southern Lebanon, who are holding their breath with the fear of an extension of the conflict on Lebanese territory: an escalation that could be either an Israeli choice or a Hezbollah decision, they believe. "Tyre is empty," says a hotelier in the southern city whose clientele has evaporated. The Ministry of Education has maintained school closures across the border strip as a precautionary measure. "My parents live in a border village, they preferred to leave the area," says Ali.
Since last weekend's attack, the slightest evolution on the Israeli-Palestinian front, the slightest statement...
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