By ALI SHARAFEDDINE

 

BEIRUT, 01 April. - (ANA) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had said the Israeli military is expanding its security zone in the tiny Mediterranean country. Ground forces are clashing with the Hezbollah militant group in their ongoing invasion, intent to create what officials have called a “security zone”.

 

Mohammad Doghman who fled the southern city of Nabatieh slammed Netanyahu, calling Israel “an expansionist state.”

 

Over one million Lebanese have been displaced in the latest war between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group, sheltering in public schools or in tents pitched on the side of the road. Israel says its aim is to protect the country from Hezbollah rocket attacks.

 

Displaced Lebanese fear that this invasion would be a pretext to a new occupation, but some are still hopeful they will return home.

 

“They take it, and we take it back again, like every time,” said Mohammad Wansa, a displaced Lebanese from the village of Dibbeen living in a tent in central Beirut. “We will return to our homes; we will return to them.”   - (ANA) -

 

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