Leaning on a green hill, Deir Mimas seems dozing under the summer sun. Sitting in the shade at the entrance to the village, a fifty-year-old passes the time discussing his olive trees to which he has no longer had access for three years since the war between Israel and Hezbollah broke out. His fields are on the edge of the village, getting there is too risky. Surrounded as far as the eye can see by thousand-year-old olive groves, Deir Mimas is located on the “yellow line” demarcating, unilaterally since mid-April, an area occupied by Israel. Each missed harvest is equivalent to a net loss of at least $10,000 per year (€8,770) for this producer of olive oil, one of the most renowned in Lebanon, awarded internationally. A burst of artillery fire cracks in the distance. “It’s nothing, it happens several times a day, it’s probably in Taybeh, behind,” says the man with the fatalistic smile of someone who has seen others.
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