After two months of total war and terrible destruction, an uneasy peace has fallen on Lebanon. Will Christou reportsAfter more than a year of fighting and two months of all-out war, a fragile and incomplete peace has finally come to Lebanon. Now the country is left to assess the ruins of villages, damaged towns and city streets blown apart – and a shattered worldview.Will Christou, who reports from Lebanon for the Guardian, charts how a year of rocket-fire exchanges became a full-scale war. He describes how Hezbollah, which had almost mythic status in Lebanon, was ultimately outgunned and outmanoeuvred. Continue reading...
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