Hiba Ghandour and her husband had been having the same argument for days.

At stake was the modest olive grove she inherited in Lebanon’s village of Arnoun, in Nabatieh governorate, which is at the centre of renewed Israeli attacks that are flouting the one-year-old ceasefire.

Their 10 trees will barely produce more than a few bottles of oil, but for the family, they hold roots deeper than their harvest.

With the fruit hanging heavy on the branches – and only a few days left until it would spoil – Hiba’s husband was determined to travel to the village.

She refused, arguing that the area is unsafe amid Israel’s wave of airstrikes on the south and north of the country.

‘I keep telling my husband, “Who knows what could happen when you go to Arnoun. It is not worth the risk,”‘ she tells Me

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