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Hundreds of Lebanese relived their worst nightmare late Monday as the Israeli military struck the Shiyyah area for the first time, a place where a large number of the displaced fled after earlier raids on the southern suburbs of Beirut. "They can't leave us in peace," said 15-year-old Fatima Ismail, one of 80 people recovering from wounds.

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