{"id":42726,"date":"2024-08-14T21:23:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T21:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/lebanese-hold-their-breath-as-mediators-scramble-to-avert-all-out-war\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T21:23:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T21:23:19","slug":"lebanese-hold-their-breath-as-mediators-scramble-to-avert-all-out-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gulftimes.ae\/?p=42726","title":{"rendered":"Lebanese hold their breath as mediators scramble to avert all-out war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The last time Israel and Hezbollah went to war, in 2006, it lasted six weeks and caused major damage and loss of life in Lebanon. More than 1,000 Lebanese civilians were killed, along with up to 200 Hezbollah fighters. Of the 160 Israelis killed, most were soldiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All sides agree that a new war would be far more deadly and destructive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And many here in Lebanon agree that the country cannot afford it. The economy is crippled, and the political system is dysfunctional. The government can\u2019t even keep the lights on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI hope there won\u2019t be a war,\u201d says Hiba Maslkhi. \u201cLebanon won\u2019t be able to cope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We meet the tracksuit-clad 35-year-old on a slip way at the waterfront in Beirut. She\u2019s focused on the Mediterranean, fishing rod in hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cI hope wiser heads will prevail,\u201d she says, \u201cand that we can control the escalation so that things don\u2019t get out of control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She takes every sonic boom personally. \u201cIf I hear one, I start to panic, and I wonder if they [Israeli forces] have hit near my house or bombed the airport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hiba, who sells perfume for a living, says Lebanon has already suffered enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">\u201cTen months is a long time for us to be psychologically destroyed, hiding in our houses,\u201d she says. \u201cWe are scared to start businesses to earn some money because we think war might be around the corner.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cm2ndvg18j8o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time Israel and Hezbollah went to war, in 2006, it lasted six weeks and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1839,655,2254,2058,2253,2153,2255,392],"class_list":["post-42726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-allout","tag-avert","tag-breath","tag-hold","tag-lebanese","tag-mediators","tag-scramble","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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