Gulf between Hezbollah and Lebanese state grows wider as Israeli occupation continues
People in south of country rely on group’s longstanding social welfare system that cash-strapped state fails to provide Fatima al-Ashkar used toys to explain to her children that their father had been killed. She arranged toy soldiers in a mock battle and picked up an airplane, miming an air raid on the plastic men below. “I started explaining to them: ‘Israel came and bombed here. Daddy was here. Daddy was martyred.
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- #2479
- First seen
- 25 Aug 2026, 04:11 UTC
- Last checked
- 25 Aug 2026, 14:27 UTC
- Version history
- 1 version
- Current fingerprint
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Publisher layer
Recorded article metadata
- Publisher
- The Guardian
- Country
- England / United Kingdom
- Source published
- 25 Aug 2026, 04:00 UTC
- Source updated
- No update timestamp supplied
- Byline
- William Christou and Ali Awada in Beirut
- Section
- Hezbollah
People in south of country rely on group’s longstanding social welfare system that cash-strapped state fails to provide Fatima al-Ashkar used toys to explain to her children that their father had been killed. She arranged toy soldiers in a mock battle and picked up an airplane, miming an air raid on the plastic men below. “I started explaining to them: ‘Israel came and bombed here. Daddy was here. Daddy was martyred.
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Gulf between Hezbollah and Lebanese state grows wider as Israeli occupation continues
People in south of country rely on group’s longstanding social welfare system that cash-strapped state fails to provide Fatima al-Ashkar used toys to explain to her children that their father had been killed. She arranged toy soldiers in a mock battle and picked up an airplane, miming an air raid on the plastic men below. “I started explaining to them: ‘Israel came and bombed here. Daddy was here. Daddy was martyred.
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- machine language-signal Death or self-harm observable-rules-v1 / 65% rule confidence
- publisher category Hezbollah rss-category
- publisher category Lebanon rss-category
- publisher category Middle East and north Africa rss-category
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- Capture ID
- #2240
- Observed
- 25 Aug 2026, 04:11 UTC
- HTTP result
- 200 / parsed
- Raw payload
- 468,769 bytes, private gzip evidence
- Collector
- news-ledger/0.1
- Public boundary
- metadata and excerpt