Gulf between Hezbollah and Lebanese state grows wider as Israeli occupation continues
People in south of country rely on group’s longstanding social welfare system that cash-strapped state fails to provide Fatima al-Ashkar used toys to explain to her children that their father had been killed.
She arranged toy soldiers in a mock battle and picked up an airplane, miming an air raid on the plastic men below.
“I started explaining to them: ‘Israel came and bombed here.
Daddy was here.
Daddy was martyred.
Daddy was protecting us from Israel,’” said al-Ashkar, a 26-year-old resident of Markaba, south Lebanon.
Her husband, Mohammed Ali, who was a member of Hezbollah, was killed fighting Israel in the region in early April.
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