Gulf between Hezbollah and Lebanese state grows wider as Israeli occupation continues

People in south of country rely on groups longstanding social welfare system that cash-strapped state fails to provideFatima 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. Daddy was protecting us from Israel, said al-Ashkar, a 26-year-old resident of Marka...