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As Lebanon has looked to step up relief efforts in Lebanon’s south, where near-daily clashes between Hezbollah and Israel threaten to erupt into all-out war, its humanitarian relief work is being complicated by the country’s sectarian divisions, analysts and observers say. The LRC is the country’s top emergency services provider. It runs Lebanon’s only 24-hour emergency hotline, and its fleet of ambulances have greater reach than any other. Its famous oath to neutrality has for decades allowed it to criss-cross the country’s explosive sectarian lines, delivering relief through decades of civil…

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