Karine Torbay

But hundreds of buildings and homes across the south of Lebanon have been destroyed by Israeli missile strikes and demolitions.

The town of Dabin is a couple of miles north of the Israeli border.

I'm standing on the site of a massive strike.

We just understood this was a fruit factory.

Here they used to prepare pickles, olive oil and other food.

But it is now turned into complete rubble.

And I can see a big crater that seems to be the exact location where a rocket must have hit.

And there is lots of destruction here.

This is just a sample of what we have been seeing around as we traveled in the south, as we moved from one town to another.

We are just meeting the owner of the factory, the food factory.

What is your name?

Abdullah told me that two days ago he has brought his kids to the site just to see what happened to their home, the factory of their father, the place they know the most.

And he said that they started crying.

It's very hard to describe the level of sadness in the eyes of Abdullah.

He has been coming every single day to this place just to stare at what happened to his property.

There's nothing he can do.

He can just stare at the loss of everything he owned.

For now, the Israeli army is still occupying parts of southern Lebanon.

They say for the purposes of security, to eliminate the threat of Hezbollah.

But when or if displaced Lebanese people return home, large parts of the south won't be recognisable as the place they once knew.