When Israeli airstrikes smashed into homes in a nearby village in southern Lebanon, Mariam, a Syrian refugee, packed her bags as quickly as she could and fled back to her home country.
More than a decade after the family had first escaped to Lebanon, they found themselves making the same treacherous journey in reverse. They paid smugglers hundreds of dollars for a gruelling three-day journey, risking arrest to get to Idlib province in the northwest of the country.