Hezbollah, Igniting Conflict

News photos of Beirut, Lebanon, Israel, and Hezbollah from National Geographic.
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In 2005 boys navigate barbed wire at southern Lebanon's Khiam, a former prison notorious for torture.

During the Israeli occupation, the South Lebanon Army (SLA), Israel's ally, held thousands of people at Khiam without trial—some for more than ten years. When Israeli troops pulled out of Lebanon in 2000, weakening the SLA, town residents stormed the building, freeing inmates.

Now known as the Hezbollah Museum, Khiam is preserved as a memorial to those who suffered there.
—Photograph by Alexandra Avakian/National Geographic magazine
 

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