By the time Huda’s family could return home, the pomegranates had fallen off the trees and rotted, the parsley and rocket had withered and the lemongrass was sagging. Two months of displacement had left their garden in disrepair.
“When we returned to the house, we didn’t know if it was still standing or not. You can stay elsewhere, but there is nothing like your own home,” said Huda, a mother of four, days after she had gone back to her house in Babliyeh, in southern Lebanon, when the ceasefire with Israel was agreed.
