How Israeli rockets emptied a Mediterranean village in Lebanon

18 minutes agoBy Ali Abbas Ahmadi, BBC NewsMaria ShayaAlma al-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…