Under the Bombs Page #4

You know nothing!

You don't care.

All you care about

is your 50 dollars!

Now you've got your money!

The day's over, you can go.

It's OK, you can go!

That's it?

You've destroyed the bridges.

We have mended their hearts.

Hezbollah

Good afternoon.

- Miss Zeinab, how are you?

- Fine.

- Can I come?

- Yes.

- No cluster bombs?

- No.

- Are you sure?

- Just walk normally.

That's the way I walk.

Hello, how are you?

Well, any news?

Everything's all right?

- You recognise me?

- Yes.

You're the taxi driver?

- It's your house?

- All my family lived there.

Now, there's no one left.

My uncle lived here.

There, that's our flat.

That's my room, there.

A broken vase, even stuck back,

it still shows.

Yes, the hatred keeps growing.

What's happened?

The poor woman is distraught.

Where is her sister's body?

No one is buried here

because of the air strikes.

- But where are they?

- In a communal grave, in Tyre.

The ambulance took her.

- You're sure?

- Provisionally to Tyre.

- Where exactly?

- Near the barracks.

Some people come

to recover the bodies.

To bury them again.

Really?

Are you interested?

I have some.

I have a box of tranquillisers.

- You give it to us?

- Yes...

Aid or...

Almost aid.

At cost price.

How are you, Ali?

Tell me, how old are you?

Eleven.

You've seen all the war?

Two wars.

I've seen two wars.

You saw two wars?

- Which ones?

- 1996 and 2006.

How old were you in 1996?

- Three months.

- Really. Which one was the hardest?

- This one, by far.

- Why?

It lasted 33 days,

the other only 16.

Tell me what happened.

With Karim,

we hid in this shelter.

For more than three days,

the bombing didn't stop.

Karim was very sad

because his aunt was dead.

He asked me once,

"'When will she be back?"

I said, "Come on,

we'll play with Tarek. "

So he'd forget his aunt

and stop crying.

- Were you afraid?

- Yes.

Tarek was coughing

because of the dust.

- It was everywhere.

- Who's Tarek?

He's dead.

He was Karim's age.

They were always together.

There was so much dust that

he was coughing and choking.

His mother decided to go

and get it.

- Get what?

- The asthma medicine.

He went with her,

he didn't want to stay alone.

Just then

we heard a great bang.

It was the building.

People were screaming,

"We'll be buried alive. "

And Karim?

He wanted to bring Tarek back,

he only had him.

I ran after him,

to hold him back

but he disappeared

in the smoke of the bombs.

And the cars came.

- Which cars?

- The ambulances.

There were two ambulances,

a Jeep from the TV,

a car and a van.

- He went into the Jeep.

- You saw him?

I saw him

in the middle of the smoke.

A man almost tore the jacket

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