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By Fin DePencier in Beirut For the second day in a row, the Israeli military issued a forced evacuation order for the entire city of Baalbek on October 31, a Lebanese city in the eastern Beqaa valley home to more than 400,000 people and some of the best-preserved Roman ruins in the world. Baalbek is a Shiite-majority city with Hezbollah in charge. It sits close to the Syrian border and has acted as a transit point between the two countries, coming into increasing prominence during the Syrian civil war, where hundreds of Hezbollah fighters used the crossings to fight on behalf of President Bash…