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"I advise you not to have a baby," a 15-year-old boy from the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp said on Thursday in one of the many crowded schoolyards in the neighboring Beddawi camp. "One day the war comes, you are walking down the street holding your baby's hand and then, boom," he said.

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