Our guides took us to Maruna Ras, a small village up a steep, rocky incline close to the border with Israel. This is where the Israeli tanks and troops first crossed the border into Lebanon in 2006. The village fought back, but it was taken.
Next in Israel’s path was Bint Jbeil, a city of 45,000 and the main administrative center for the South. It was here that the resistance fighters stopped the Israeli ground advance in street-to-street battles. The people of Bint Jbeil stopped the invaders, who could not penetrate even a mile into Lebanon.
But Bint Jbail suffered. Bombed by land, sea and air, 70 percent of the city was flattened. Here too there was no rubble, only new construction.
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