Why 800 people fled a sun-kissed Mediterranean village
Shaab and the surrounding countryside in spring 2020, with the Mediterranean Sea visible in the distance/ "Why, why us?" cries Milad Eid, his anguish clear over the breaking phone line. An hour earlier, he was dousing a fire at a house that had been hit by an Israeli missile. While he was there, a bomb struck another one. His village, Alma al-Shaab, lies in southern Lebanon just over a kilometre from the Israeli border. Since October last year, it has been caught in cross-border fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah, the Shia Muslim ...
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