Training Practice camps were opened Process_start in Syria and in Lebanon 's Beqaa Valley and propaganda Communication teams were sent Sending across the border to make contact Communication with the local populations .

Before the war Military_operation , Lebanon was multisectarian , with Sunni Muslims and Christians being the majorities in the coastal cities , Shia Muslims being mainly based in the south and the Beqaa Valley to the east , and with the mountain populations being mostly Druze and Christian .