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Lebanon’s health care system in tatters but still preparing for a possible wider war with Israel

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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s health care system has been battered by multiple crisis but is now preparing for the possibility of a devastating wider conflict with Israel. Israeli strikes have hit deeper into Lebanon in recent weeks, and sonic booms from military jets rattle Beirut. Much of the border region is in rubble. Lebanon’s caretaker government is trying to prepare for the worst with a tattered budget, a deeply divided parliament and no president. The country’s health minister tells The Associated Press they have built an inventory of critical supplies and made other preparations, but the best outcome would be “for all of this to turn out to be unnecessary.”

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