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To the east of Lebanon’s capital, in Mount Lebanon, Metn, and the northern districts, long queues snake around grocery stores, money transfer offices, and pharmacies, filled with residents and newly arrived internally displaced persons (IDPs). “My house was ruined,” one man in the crowd told The New Arab. Originally from the Bekaa Valley region, the man, who prefers to remain anonymous, says that he couldn’t save anything. “This is why I ended up sharing a small apartment in Burj Al-Barajneh with my wife’s family, my sister, her husband, and two children in a one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartmen…

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