The lamenting and the emotional anguish around the coffins at a Hezbollah funeral is as much an expression of personal grief as it is of collective suffering of the rituals in Shia Islam around martyrdom and resistance. We were invited by Hezbollah to film all this to get their message out to the power brokers in Beirut and especially to Israel that they are proud to die in battle and that their fight goes on. The final goodbye for eight people, some civilians, some fighters, we don't know how many. They weren't able to extract the bodies until now, until this ceasefire. And now there's only chance to say goodbye.

The habitual chance, death to Israel, death to America around coffins draped in the yellow flag of Hezbollah caressed by mothers and widows and sisters with boy scouts standing by holding the banners of Hezbollah's ultimate sponsors, the last two Ayatollah and a long line of leaders of Iran's axis of resistance. What do you say to those Lebanese people who are angry that Hezbollah brought this war on Lebanon by launching six rockets to avenge the Ayatollah? Those Lebanese who complained that the six rockets inconvenienced them were filling the nightclubs and bars in various places and seaside venues and tourist spots across Lebanon.

The ones who truly paid the price were the people of the land who refused to let Israel drive them from their homes with the complicity of the Lebanese state. We headed inland from the coastal road as far south as you can get before a Lebanese army checkpoint prevents you from entering Israeli occupied territory. We passed mile after mile of wrecked villages scarred from heavy shelling and repeated Israeli air strikes. Hard to tell which war did what to these homes.

The last one which started on October the 8th, 2023, the 15 months of supposed ceasefire in between, or this one, much shorter so far, but devastating. In the village of Mansuri, the rubble from an air strike which killed eight people who'd gone back to check on their homes after Donald Trump's ceasefire with Iran. Thinking that deal applied to them, too. My father is the one who just died here. So now that I have to revenge for him because I will never leave his blood to go away just like that.

What does that mean? Revenge for you. Revenge for me that means I will do whatever I can do to revenge for my father. That means fight Israel. Is that what you mean? Sure. And we will never have peace with them. There is this constant buzz of Israeli drones overhead. And when you talk to people here in the south, they say there can be no peace with Israel. They look at the devastation of their villages. They talk about the destruction in Gaza, the carving up of the West Bank into Israeli settlements. And they say this is not about security for Israel. This is about expanding their territory and settling more and more land. So for the

men in Beirut in their suits to negotiate with Israel on behalf of the people who have lost everything, that just doesn't square up for them. In the ancient coastal city of Ty, there are temporary cemeteries freshly dug for bodies that could not be buried where they should have been, separated, even in death by war, from their homes and final resting places. Muhammad Sed had come to visit his brother's grave. Tell her that we're a people who really love life. We're a people who love life.

The problem is the government has forsaken us. There isn't a house in the whole of South Lebanon that doesn't have a martyr or two or three. This land is soaked in Lebanese blood. Each fallen son or daughter of its soil fuel for further vengeance. Dana Magny Sky News entire Lebanon.