“I feel like I’m repeating stuff that people would say in Gaza," Joseph, a 40-year-old linguist living in Beirut , tells Newsweek several weeks into Israel 's war on Lebanon . “Although it's a tiny bit better situation than Gaza. We are not entirely besieged,” he adds . Fears are mounting over what some have described as the “Gaza-fication” of Lebanon, as Israel continues a sweeping bombing campaign that expands its military footprint deeper into the south nearly two months into the war. They