Feature: Hanging Christmas lights over ruins, Lebanon's border towns refuse to surrender hope

NAMPA / Xinhua

2025-12-25

DEBEL, Lebanon, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- In the border village of Debel, the facade of George Awad's small grocery shop is still cross-hatched with shrapnel scars. But this week, Awad, 50, climbed a ladder to hang a string of Christmas lights over the damage. Behind him, the village is a graveyard of architecture: shattered roofs and pancaked walls, the gray debris of months of shelling. "These lights won't rebuild our homes," Awad said, surveyi......

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