Tag: Lebanon Clashes

BEIRUT: More than 4,200 people have been displaced from villages in south Lebanon by clashes on the border with Israel, and local officials said Friday that they are ill-prepared for the much larger exodus that would ensue if the the limited conflict escalates to an all-out war. Some 1,500 of the displaced are staying in three schools in the coastal city of Tyre, about 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of the border. As children ran through the courtyard and women hung out clothes to dry on chairs...