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Jump to full article: Boston (MA) Globe, 2006-08-06
Author: Thanassis Cambanis
Intro: The Shi'ite militia Hezbollah has little support in this Sunni Muslim village. Like many of the villages in the border valley, however, Dhaira has taken a beating from Israeli and Hezbollah positions that command the heights on either side.
Tobacco farmer Abou Najeh, 54, said he has remained in the village just a few hundred yards from the Israeli border with his 10 children because he didn't have $100 to charter a taxi to safety earlier in the conflict.
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