This content originally appeared on Jamaica News.
The anxiety level among Jamaicans living in the Middle East has sky-rocketed, as the conflict escalates.
The Jamaican community there is hunkering down trying to keep safe amid the sounds of war.
Shanice Gibbs has been speaking to some of them, since the first strikes on Saturday, and filed this report.
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