BEIRUT ¨C In a parking lot strewn with trash near Beirut¡¯s Mediterranean coast, Hassan Yahya has taped a cardboard sign to a traffic signal pole beside the tarp tent that now serves as his home.
¡°Kfar Kila welcomes you,¡± read the lines scrawled in thin pen.
The flimsy ?board recalls a signpost that once stood dozens of miles away at the entrance of the centuries-old village of that name. Kfar Kila is one of about a dozen villages along Lebanon¡¯s southern border that have been progressively flattened by waves of Israeli bombardment over the past two and a half years.
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