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The young mother stood aghast in the apartment which reeked of cordite, its walls blackened, windows shattered and furniture reduced to ashes after a wave of violence swept through Druze mountain villages southeast of Beirut. Shell-shocked residents of the area were still reeling on Monday after the clashes.

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