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Twenty-six-year-old Rawan was lying on a paper-thin mattress on the floor of a school classroom. She was eight months pregnant and was ordered to stay on bed rest until she gave birth, which she was told would be a preterm delivery. “I’m very stressed. I’m short of breath all the time now,” she told The New Arab in the school-turned-shelter in west Beirut. Her voice was drowned out by the loud and unrelenting buzz of an Israeli drone flying overhead. Israel’s intensified bombardment of Lebanon in late September has pushed more than a million people out of their homes and so far, killed over 3,…