Long stretches of Odaisseh and a neighbouring village have been virtually abandoned and reduced to rubble
A mural of Jerusalem with the caption ‘the gate of return’ is painted on the border fence that separates Israel and Lebanon in the Lebanese town of Kafr Kila.A mural of Jerusalem with the caption ‘the gate of return’ is painted on the border fence that separates Israel and Lebanon in the Lebanese town of Kafr Kila.daisseh had last been bombed four days ago. Israeli missiles would strike it again in the evening.
The convoy encountered no traffic but for a Lebanese army vehicle and three ambulances from emergency services organisations linked to Hezbollah and another Shi’ite party, Amal.There was no sign of life in the centre of Odaisseh but a lone, stray dog and a young man beneath the awning of a shop, staring as the UN convoy passed.
It is a chequered battlefield, the damage overwhelmingly concentrated in Shi’a areas while some nearby Christian-majority ones are nearly intact. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been under pressure to find a way for his citizens, many holed up in hotels at the government’s expense, to return to the north before the next school year in September. Military planners in Tel Aviv understand an open war with Hezbollah, thought to have more than 130,000 rockets and missiles in its stockpile, could do unprecedented damage to Israeli cities.
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