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"There is nothing better than being back," she said. "Yes, our house is destroyed, but we are here together, with the resistance. We will not leave..."

"We've been doing 20-hour shifts to keep up. For the first time since this war began, it actually felt like we were at war," a nurse in Beirut told TNA.

"I'm clinging to my land," Hussein Karim, a 58-year-old resident, told °®Âþµº. "Either I live on it, or die with it.

"We're trying to reassure people that we're ready, but our government is not at all prepared for repeated disasters."