NAZARETH, Israel — Israel's largest Arab city was already buckling under a wartime economic slowdown when cross-border clashes with Lebanon's Hezbollah intensified, grounding life to a halt.

Now Nazareth, a city heavily dependent on tourism including from Christian pilgrims, faces deepening despair as sirens wail and rockets and warplanes soar overhead.

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