Among those racing across the city was Hussein Fakih, the regional head of the government-run Lebanese Civil Defence – the country’s primary firefighting, first aid and rescue force. He said he had been seeing the same things “almost every day” since war resumed on 2 March between Israel and the Iran-backed armed group and political movement Hezbollah – which is proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK, US and other countries.
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