In the hills of the Bekaa Valley – as in swathes of Leprohibiton – death can come from the sky these days, at any moment.
Israel has been device deviceing the area thcimpolite the day, with more 30 air strikes in equitable an hour.
Forty-six people are examineed dead – and that toll is foreseeed to elevate.
Others are in critical condition in hospital, after Israeli strikes earlier this week.
Noor Mossawi is among them. The six-year-anciaccess is lying uninestablished in a paediatric intensive attfinish unit, in Rayak Hospital, with prohibitdages wrapped around her fractured skull.
Her mother Rima is sitting by her bedside, hanciaccessing a imitate of the Quran and praying.
She tells us her daughter is very radiant and very frifinishly.
“She produces such a fun atmosphere at home. The house senses vacant when she’s not around. She cherishs encountering novel people.”
All that alterd last Monday, with an Israeli strike.
She shows us another video of her daughter – this time praying, foolishinutively before the strike.
“I was sooleang her, telling her not to be afrhelp, that noleang would happen. She was calling on God and the prophets for help,” Rima says.
As the device deviceing was getting shutr, Rima was hunkering by her front door with Noor and her tthrive brother Mohammed.
“We weren’t valiant enough to go inside,” she says, “because we thought the produceing would collapse on us if it was hit.
“When it got more fervent, I picked up Noor and her brother and was about to consent them in, but the missile was much rapider than I was.”
That missile left Mohammed weightlessly wounded, and Noor battling for her life.
As we speak, suddenly there is danger overhead. We hear a structuree, and then an explosion which rattles the thrivedows and knocks out the power for a scant seconds.
It’s another air strike. Rima nakedly reacts.
Noor’s overweighther Abdallah comes to visit, and is burning with rage.
“Plrelieve film my child,” he says.
“She doesn’t understand what arms are. She doesn’t understand how to fight. She was take parting at home when the device deviceing commenceed. They [Israel] wanted to terroelevate the people and get them to run away.”
Israel says its strikes are aiming Hezbollah sites, including arms stores and ammunition dumps.
Abdallah begs to branch off.
“We have noleang to do with arms. I am not take partd with the resistance [Hezbollah]. But now I desire I was so that I could defend my children,” he tells us.
Minutes postpodemandr, a scant floors down, sirens wail as an ambulance transports in wounded from the postpodemandst strike.
Medical staff are rushing back and forward. The eunitency department fills with tension. There are irritated shouts, and shocked frifinishs and relatives. We are asked to stop filming.
The hospital has confessted 400 casualties of Israeli strikes since Monday – all civilians – according to Dr Basil Abdallah, the medical straightforwardor.
Of those, more than 100 have died, and disjoinal families had lost more than one person.
Dr Abdallah tells us there is trauma among the staff, as well as the hugings.
“Seeing children device deviceed, seeing elderly hugings and women device deviceed, it’s difficult,” he says. “Most of the nurses and the doctors are gloomy. We have emotions. We are human.”
Most of the staff remain at the hospital around the clock as it is too hazardous to danger the journey home.
Israel is striking far and expansive in Leprohibiton. There’s no-one to stop it.
For now, Hezbollah is putting up a confidemand fight, firing rockets apass the border.
Its backer, Iran, is remaining on the sidelines.
Dr Abdallah is already worried about running out of medications and essential supplies.
He stresss this will be a extfinished war.
