Democracy Now’s Ana Nogueira is in Lebanon. She recently visited Bint Jbail where she spoke to Nabil Beydoun. He had only recently returned to Lebanon from the United States when his town came under attack.

• Nabil Beydoun: “There was no food, no water, nothing. And I’m thankful to my neighbor’s son. I got a gift. I used to give him a dollar a day because he helped for one thing from the village. When he see my house and he went — he called for help. And he think i’m dead. They started digging and they find me alive. My sister is buried alive with her kids, seven kids and a husband. And even my wife’s brother, he was killed with two babies. They can’t pick the kids–i feel those kids are mine. I used to play with them everyday. I miss them.”

Nogueira also visited the border village of Ain El Chaab.

• Lebanese Farmer Yassoun (no last name given): “All the farms now are burned and all the people working the farm don’t have a job. Now they are waiting for construction of the village and farms and they are starting to do the work. Those people–those people you saw are sleeping on the street because they don’t have a house they don’t have camps they don’t have water to even wash their hands.”