00:03We're driving through Nabatea with a team of paramedics.
00:07The city has been hit hard by Israeli airstrikes.
00:10We're in the red zone, the stretch of southern Lebanon under Israeli evacuation orders.
00:20Hezbollah has a strong presence here.
00:23This is one of the heartlands of Lebanon's Shia community.
00:26Israel says it's targeting Hezbollah fighters
00:29who are launching rockets into northern Israel.
00:33There's always movement in the skies.
00:35There are drones, fighter aircraft.
00:38We've got used to it. They're always in the skies.
00:41It never lets up.
00:51The team tours the city, searching for anyone injured,
00:55before heading back to their base at the hospital.
01:09We've got an artillery fire.
01:12It's on the edges of the city in the hills.
01:18This is where volunteer paramedics in Nabatea are staying 24 hours a day.
01:22When they hear a strike, an Israeli strike, they go to the scene of the strike as fast as they
01:27can and try to help anyone who's been injured.
01:30They work in shifts so that a team is always on standby while the others rest.
01:35The men are locals. They grew up here.
01:37Are you checking for news?
01:39News?
01:40I'm my son.
01:41That's my family.
01:46Since the war broke out on March 2nd, the hospital has recorded 97 deaths and treated 260 wounded.
01:55The director also sleeps at the hospital.
01:58Her home was damaged in an Israeli airstrike.
02:03She can't forget those who couldn't be saved.
02:13Her grandfather was killed, her uncle too.
02:16Another little girl was brought in.
02:18She was operated on, but died.
02:20She was still speaking, but she had lost so much blood.
02:23There have been others, entire families, decimated.
02:27The mother, father and children.
02:29There are families who have been wiped off the official register.
02:33Completely wiped off.
02:39Mohammed and his team also distribute aid.
02:43The shops here are closed.
02:45Very few supplies are reaching the 250 or so residents who've stayed behind.
02:53We won't leave.
02:55We got warnings on our phones telling us to leave, but we stayed.
03:00We can't sleep at night.
03:01The strikes are constant.
03:03All night and all day there are strikes.
03:05But what can we do?
03:06God help us.
03:12Fighting between Hezbollah and Israel is fierce in the region.
03:16Most of Nabataea's residents are among the one million Lebanese who have been displaced.
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