{
    "byline": "Adam Chamseddine in Nabatieh, Lebanon",
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    "excerpt": "For months, the south Lebanon hill of\u00a0Ali al-Taher was treated by Hezbollah as an exception to a strategy it had otherwise adopted since the beginning of the war with Israel on 2 March: avoid fighting to hold fixed geographical positions at all costs.",
    "lang": null,
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    "title": "Ali al-Taher: What Israel\u2019s 'operational control' of the hill really means for Hezbollah and Lebanon"
}