By Ali Abbas Ahmadi, BBC News
Maria Shaya
“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 Iran-backed militia that operates from southern Lebanon.
At least 800 residents have fled, and now there are only about 100 left, officials say.
“Nobody knows why they are attacking our houses,” Mr Eid says. “It’s not our war.”
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