The personal stories of villagers in southern Lebanon about living close to the border with neighbouring Israel.
"I was tending the goats with my brother, sister and cousin," says Mohammed Abedelaal, the son of a southern Lebanese farmer. "They crossed first, but it exploded when I did. I stepped on a cluster bomb. I lost this leg. And this leg was..."
Mohammed and thousands like him are victims of the tension between Lebanon and Israel that has often made the border area a battleground of invasion, occupation and territorial disputes.
When Israel pulled out of southern Lebanon in May 2000, the United Nations created the "Blue Line", or "Line of Withdrawal", to establish that Israel had withdrawn fully from Lebanese territory. As with many artificial borders between countries, the Line not only cuts through some Lebanese villages, it also created areas that have become hotly disputed between the two countries.
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