The country was divided before, unsure about its approach to Hezbollah, but now people are thinking as one
The smell of burnt rubber hung heavy over the rescue workers as they dug, painstakingly removing rubble, their shadows long and movements harsh under the burning floodlights. Onlookers watched the progress in silence, waiting for any sign of life under the building levelled by four Israeli missiles in Dahieh, the southern suburbs of Beirut, just a few hours before on Friday afternoon.
Broken glass stained with blood had been swept to the side and the area cordoned off, members of Hezbollah and the Lebanese civil defence barking orders to make sure emergency vehicles could access the area. Men with freshly bandaged hands, the product of booby-trapped pagers a few days before, milled about as women sobbed.
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