Ras Baalbek is just one of a handful of Christian villages in the northern Bekaa Valley not far from the Syrian border.
During a break between workshops in the Bekaa Valley, I met Noor*.
His funeral took place in el Qilya, a small village spread out on the slopes of mountains just above the Bekaa Valley.
There are some areas in the Bekaa Valley and Hermel where the government and the army have been unable to penetrate.
The Hezbollah official said he was aware of the risks and what an assault on Yabrud may bring to the Bekaa Valley.
This, we conjecture, is the fertile basin of El Buchaia, or Bekaa.
