Twice displaced: Syrian refugees flee home from Lebanon [Video]

A decade after finding refuge in Lebanon from civil war in his native Syria, Ahmad Mustafa fled in the other direction this week from a new conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

“We’re starting from scratch all over again,” the 46-year-old said after crossing the border into Syria with his wife and three children.

Mustafa recounted escaping his hometown of Raqa in northern Syria after Islamic State group jihadists overran the city in 2013.

“We fled with just the clothes on our back,” he said.

“Now it’s the same in Lebanon. We had to run for our lives under the bombs,” he said of his family’s escape from their home in the south Lebanon village of Wazzani under Israeli bombardment.

He and his family were heading back to Raqa, hoping to stay with relatives once they got there.

Lebanon became home to hundreds of thousands of Syrians after the repression of …