The families forced to flee the clashes on the Lebanon-Israeli border: ‘A shell landed in the garden’
by Bel Trew
Dec 27, 2023
4 minutes
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A little more than a decade after she fled war in Syria as a teenager, Asmaa, 29, tucked her two youngest children under her arms and ran again.
Her five-month-old was screaming as they sprinted away from Israeli tank fire along the border areas in Lebanon to try to find safety.
The bombing was so close that shrapnel sliced a thin scar down her 11-year-old daughter Inaam’s face.
“We were sitting at home in the evening when the tank fire started getting closer and closer,” the mother-of-six tells from a school where she was sleeping on the floor of a classroom, with no electricity. More than 150 people are
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