Most of the residents of the Dahiyeh – the collection of neighbourhoods on the southern outskirts of Beirut where Hezbollah is the dominant power – have fled this week.
Dahiyeh, Lebanon | There is little life left in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Roads, typically crammed with bumper-to-bumper traffic and the deafening screech of car horns, are eerily empty. Once-bustling pavements where people talked politics over coffee and tea are desolate, too.
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