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Amid airstrikes and hundreds of thousands displaced, CNN reports on how a tense Lebanon has been dragged into the Iran war

A week into the US and Israeli war with Iran, Lebanon has found itself firmly dragged into the conflict. With Israel intensifying its campaign of airstrikes against the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia, causing bloodshed and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to abandon their homes. CNN’s Matthew Chance reports from a volatile Beirut.

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