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In late September, Ahmad Hamdo, a 28-year-old Syrian father of four, was forced to flee with his family from Mays el Jabal in south Lebanon as Israeli airstrikes intensified. Leaving the town, located some 30 metres from the Blue Line, the UN-mapped frontier separating Lebanon from Israel, they headed to Al Rahman refugee camp in the Bekaa Valley’s Taalabaya. “The Lebanon Intelligence Agency threatened the shawish [camp leader] with an imminent raid on the camp, so we left for an informal shelter in Taalabaya called Bezret Kheir and stayed there for a few nights,” Ahmad tells The New Arab. Fro…

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