For many, we watched the scenes of bombing in Lebanon on the news with horror and sorrow for those involved. However, it is the sad case with major conflicts that you only really get touched when you hear the individual stories of those involved. For the York students trapped in the city of Beirut, the terror must have been unimaginable. Thankfully, they were luckier than some. Being stuck in the middle of a battle that became headline news around the world must have felt like a nightmare. Whatever the politics of the rights and the wrongs of the situations, it is stories like these that are the only way to expose the horror of war.

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