Israeli airstrikes and its burgeoning ground invasion have forced dozens of Lebanese Christians to take shelter in a monastery close to the border with Israel.
Milad Louis, head of the municipality of Ain Ebel, a largely Christian town, said Israeli airstrikes forced the community to evacuate in just 45 minutes.
“The situation is devastating,” he told NBC News in a telephone interview Tuesday from Our Lady of Annunciation monastery and school, a Maronite Christian institution less than 2 miles from Israel. “Why us? There is no Hezbollah in Ain Ebel and Israel knows that.”
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