‘It’s the West Bank’: Lebanese villagers describe life inside Israel’s ‘yellow line’

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Israeli soldiers conducted raids in Kfarchouba, Lebanon, detaining residents and forcing others to abandon their homes within the Israeli-occupied 'yellow line' border zone. Unlike most villages in the zone which are demolished, Kfarchouba's residents remain under a West Bank-style occupation, subject to strict conditions and nightly military patrols.

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Residents live in fear of nightly raids and daytime bombings from the Israeli military occupying their land For hours, Hussein Abdel al-El and his wife, Um Alaa, did not move. They sat in the bathroom in the dark, not daring to touch their phones; the faint glow of the screen might give them away to the Israeli soldiers outside.

‘It’s the West Bank’: Lebanese villagers describe life inside Israel’s ‘yellow line’

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