As it is usual in the sort of conflict that is going on in Israel, Palestine and Lebanon, the common people that are unrelated to politics, terrorism and religion will suffer. Wars ar just like that and one is left wondering why, if everyone suffers, we humans let things go as far as this?

But there are survival lessons to be considered as well: we just have to look at what was the first thing that common citizens in Lebanon did when the Israeli counterattack began, after the ambush in wich Hizbollah captured two soldiers triggered this new edition fo Middle East War, 2006.

The thing that Lebanese people did was to gather as much privisions and water as they could; very simple, but these unfortunate and unwiling war veterans know by experience what could happen in the days to come.

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Another thing that should be added is that visitors and tourists that suddenly find themselves in such places should:

- Register as soon as possible at their consulate or embassy. In this way, if they get missing in any way, authorities will know the fact and hopefully do something.

- Keep at hand their passports, always. Don't keep at a safe box in a bank, for once trouble starts, financial institutions may not open anymore.

Another thing that seems to be the rule is that it is safer to travel by car over roads within the combat zone that in vans, buses or trucks because it seems that combatants often consider these big vehicles as "profitable" targets.

It is likely that some assume - with or without reason - that vehicles of a certain size may be transporting weapons, ammunition, ordnance or material of some military value.

Cars, being small, make a harder target to hit and probably not worthy the expenditure of an anti-tan rocket or missile.