Cattle farmer Khairallah Yaacoub refused to leave south Lebanon despite a year of Hezbollah-Israel clashes. When full-scale war erupted, he and four others were stranded in their ruined border village.Yaacoub is among a handful of villagers in the war-battered south who have tried to stay put despite the Israeli onslaught.He finally fled Hula village only after being wounded by shrapnel and losing half of his 16-strong herd to Israeli strikes…
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Some defiant south Lebanese stay put in face of Israeli fire
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