00:00We're driving through Nabatiyah with a team of paramedics.
00:05The city has been hit hard by Israeli airstrikes.
00:08We're in the red zone, the stretch of southern Lebanon under Israeli evacuation orders.
00:18Hezbollah has a strong presence here.
00:20This is one of the heartlands of Lebanon's Shia community.
00:24Israel says it's targeting Hezbollah fighters who are launching rockets into northern Israel.
00:30There's always movement in the skies, there are drones, fighter aircraft, we've got used
00:36to it.
00:37They're always in the skies, it never lets up.
00:49The team tours the city, searching for anyone injured, before heading back to their base
00:54at the hospital.
01:08That's artillery fire, it's on the edges of the city in the hills.
01:15This is where volunteer paramedics in Nabatiyah are staying 24 hours a day.
01:20When they hear a strike, an Israeli strike, they go to the scene of the strike as fast
01:24as they can and try to help anyone who's been injured.
01:27They work in shifts so that a team is always on standby while the others rest.
01:32The men are locals, they grew up here.
01:35Are you checking for news?
01:37News, I'm my son, there's my family.
01:43Since the war broke out on March 2nd, the hospital has recorded 97 deaths and treated 260 wounded.
01:53The director also sleeps at the hospital.
01:56Her home was damaged in an Israeli airstrike.
02:00She can't forget those who couldn't be saved.
02:10Her grandfather was killed, her uncle too.
02:14Another little girl was brought in.
02:15She was operated on, but died.
02:17She was still speaking, but she had lost so much blood.
02:21There have been others, entire families, decimated, the mother, father and children.
02:26There are families who have been wiped off the official register, completely wiped off.
02:36Mohammed and his team also distribute aid.
02:40The shops here are closed.
02:42Very few supplies are reaching the 250 or so residents who've stayed behind.
02:51We won't leave.
02:52We got warnings on our phones telling us to leave, but we stayed.
02:57We can't sleep at night.
02:59The strikes are constant.
03:00All night and all day there are strikes, but what can we do?
03:04God help us.
03:04God help us.
03:09Fighting between Hezbollah and Israel is fierce in the region.
03:13Most of Nabatiyah's residents are among the one million Lebanese who have been displaced.
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