The elderly man stumbled over the rubble, his crumpled suit hanging off his shrunken frame, his loose pants held together by a pin after eating only a piece of candy a day."I haven't seen the sun for 20 days," said 73-year-old Mehdi al-Halim. Next to him, his wife balanced a bag of clothes on her head as she tried to pick her way over the wreckage of bombed-out buildings.Some 200 Lebanese, many elderly, struggled to safety Monday, ravaged by days in hiding with little food as battling Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah guerrillas brought the town of Bint Jbail down around them.The siege lifted, they emerged from their shelters, dehydrated, starving _ some in their 70s or 80s _ and some started to walk out of devastated Bint Jbail. Two died on the road, one of malnutrition, the other of heart failure. Others waited for ambulances....
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