Matt Bradley is a London-based foreign correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC.
AIN EBEL, Lebanon — The church bells still ring in Ain Ebel, but there’s hardly anyone left to hear them. The small Christian village of about 1,500 is only a few miles from Lebanon’s border with Israel — an island in an ocean of mostly Shiite Muslims governed by the dominant militant group, Hezbollah. As cross-border shelling between Hezbollah and Israel has increased over the past few weeks, the majority of the women and children have fled, mostly to Lebanon’s capital, Beirut.
Hanna Shakrallah Suleiman, the pastor of Our Lady of Ain Ebel Maronite Church, proudly showed off a monument to the “Massacre of 1920” — Christians killed fighting the town’s Shiite Muslim neighbors. Another hulking monument next to it commemorates the assassination of Elias Hasrouty, a local Christian politician who was killed only a few months ago. There are other less modest monuments nearby.
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