Beirut ¨C In a classroom turned shelter for displaced families, teenager Ahmad Melhem follows a recorded lesson on a tablet as the war between Hezbollah and Israel interrupts education for hundreds of thousands of students in Lebanon.
¡°I don¡¯t want to regret not finishing my studies despite the difficult circumstances,¡± said Melhem, whose family was displaced from Beirut¡¯s southern suburbs, the site of repeated Israeli bombardment.
¡°We took a risk and went back to get schoolbooks,¡± he said.
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