Carmen Sesin is a reporter for NBC News based in Miami, Florida.
“This is already a war.” For many in Lebanon, warnings from the United States that further escalation between Israel and Hezbollah could lead to all-out conflict have fallen flat. To Elias Faouz, it feels like that moment has already passed. “It has been going on for a year now,” said Faouz, 44, an architect in Beirut, the capital city. He recalled how during the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, there was a sense of hope because several countries were actively mediating.
Before Israel’s siege on Lebanon began this week, 23 Israeli soldiers and 26 civilians were killed amid low-level, cross-border fighting. More than 500 Lebanese people, including at least 100 civilians, had been killed in those strikes. Sandra Moukhtar, an English teacher at a Catholic school in Mount Lebanon, a mostly Christian area, said she has “conflicted emotions.” “It’s a feeling of rage and devastation about what’s happening.
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