BEIRUT (AFP) - Kindergarten teacher Zeinab Asfur stands in front of her class in the Shiite-dominated southern suburbs of Beirut. "Who are your heroes?" she asks. "The men of the resistance!" the children shout back in unison.
As early as four years old, pupils across the suburbs are taught about the "heroic resistance" of the militant group Hezbollah in Israel's summer war which completely devastated large parts of the area.
Their return to school this year has been overshadowed by the deaths of more than 1,200 people -- one third of them children -- during the 34-day Israeli onslaught which also destroyed roads, homes and schools.
Dozens of schools were flattened in the predominantly Shiite suburbs of the capital and in the south of the country, where Hezbollah guerrillas fought against Israeli troops during the conflict.
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