Amid Hezbollah-Israel clashes, Christian village in Lebanon plans for war | Israel-Palestine conflict

At Lebanon’s border with Israel, residents of a Christian village are hoping battle might be prevented at the same time as they put together for the potential of worsening hostilities between the Lebanese Shia group Hezbollah and Israel.

Positioned simply a few kilometres from the frontier, the village of Rmeich has already suffered fallout from three weeks of clashes alongside the border between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah, the dominant pressure in southern Lebanon.

The village, together with the remainder of Lebanon, is feeling the turbulence unleashed by the battle raging some 200km (124 miles) away between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, an ally of the closely armed Hezbollah.

Those that stay in Rmeich seem reluctant to debate the politics of the disaster that has introduced battle to their doorstep, attempting to protect some normalcy within the village whose 18th-century church nonetheless holds a mass 3 times a day.

“I received’t say we’re feeling secure however the scenario is steady,” village priest Toni Elias, 40, mentioned as a navy drone buzzed overhead.

“If we don’t hear the drone, we predict one thing odd is occurring. We’re used to it each day, 24/7,” Elias mentioned.