Forced by yet another war in Lebanon to flee his home for the second time in just two years, and mourning lost relatives and friends, Hassan Kiki said he feels much older than 16.
"War has aged us... We have lived through what no one else has," the tall teen from south Lebanon told AFP in Beirut.
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