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With Israel’s brutal attacks on Lebanon nearing the one-month mark and with no end in sight, thousands of citizens are trying to escape the relentless bombings by fleeing the country in a new mass exodus. Between 1865 and 1916 it was estimated that about a third of Mount Lebanon’s population had emigrated by the end of the First World War in the first exodus. The second wave occurred during the 1975-1990 Civil War, which saw about 990,000 people leave Lebanon and many more left following the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war and the 2020 Beirut Blast. Now, over 1.2 million people have been displaced due…

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