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French victims of 1983 Beirut attack honoured in Paris / 33Z46VU
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France's holds a ceremony to honour 58 French soldiers killed on October 23, 1983 when the Drakkar, the building in Beirut housing French troops, was razed to the ground. The 40-year anniversary comes as Israel is involved in a brutal conflict with Hamas in Gaza, and tension has been rising with Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah. For many of the survivors of the 1983 attacks, the pain of four decades refuses to ease -- intensified by outstanding questions over what happened that day, with some doubting the official explanation from both Paris and Washington that Hezbollah, working to the orders of its paymasters in Iran, carried out the attacks using truck or car bombs. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES