lynsey addario, photographer

Middle East: Lebanon Israel War

Lebanese soldiers line up coffins at the hospital before a mass burial after amassing uncollected bodies from around the villages of South Lebanon in Tyre, August 15, 2006. Emergency workers and volunteers began the grim process of unearthing the dead as the second day of theceasefire unfolded.
  
Relatives and close friends of eleven members of two families who were killed in Israeli attacks during the war weep over their bodies before a funeral in the village of Halousia village in Southern Lebanon, August 16, 2006. The procession of funerals continues throughout the south as families begin to unearth and claim bodies from the rubble.
  
Israeli soldiers pause from tank firing at dawn to pray at an artillery camp along the Israel Lebanon border, in Israel, July 25, 2006. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon and Hizbollah fighters continue to send rockets into Israel.
     
  
An Israeli artillery unit continues to fire tanks along the frontline as fierce fighting between Israeli and Hizbollah soldiers continues, in Northern Israel, July 29, 2006, in Israel. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon and Hizbollah fighters continue to send rockets into Israel.
  
Lebanese walk through the destruction in Beirut's southern suburbs on the first day of the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, August 14, 2006. Eyes around the world are on Israel and Lebanon as civilians go back to their homes for the first time since the start of the war over a month ago.
  
Israeli soldiers continue fighting along the frontline as fierce fighting between Israeli and Hizbollah soldiers continues, in Northern Israel, July 26, 2006, in Israel. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon and Hizbollah fighters continue to send rockets into Israel.
     
  
Mehdi Ali Sharif Maanqi, 6, rides with his sliblings and family in the back of a truck towards his home on the outskirts of Tyre as thousands of Lebanese sit in traffic along the main road leading south on the first day of the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, August 14, 2006. Eyes around the world are on Israel and Lebanon as civilians go back to their homes for the first time since the start of the war over a month ago.
  
Zaineb Haider weeps over the death of her son, who was a Hezbollah fighter, upon returning to the village of Srifa for the first time since the start of the war over a month ago in South Lebanon, August 15, 2006. Srifa, mainly a Hezbollah and Amal stronghold, was almost completely decimated by Israeli bombs in the war.
  
Friends and family of an Israeli soldier who was killed in Bint Jbail yesterday along with seven other soldiers weeps alongside friends and family after his buriel in Haifa, Northern Israel, July 27, 2006. As the war between Lebanon and Israel moves into its third week, hundreds of civilians and dozens of fighters have been killed and injured on both sides.
     
  
A Lebanese woman weeps quietly as she holds the photo of a Hezbollah fighter during a funeral for two Hezbollah fighters, a two year old child, and an old man, in the village of Shemaa in Southern Lebanon, August 20, 2006. As burials around the South continue, many villagers are too scared to return to their homes save for a funeral because Israeli troops are still in the area as part of the ceasefire agreement until international troops arrive.
   
Villagers weep as they watch the burial of a Hizbollah fighter in the village of Shemaa in Southern Lebanon, August 20, 2006. As burials around the South continue, many villagers are too scared to return to their homes save for a funeral because Israeli troops are still in the area as part of the ceasefire agreement until international troops arrive.
   
Relatives and close friends of eleven members of two families who were killed in Israeli attacks during the war carry their bodies for prayer before a funeral in the village of Halousia village in Southern Lebanon, August 16, 2006. The procession of funerals continues throughout the south as families begin to unearth and claim bodies from the rubble.
     
  
A Lebanese woman walks through the remnants of her home as it was left by Israeli troops who had been occupying it in the village of Taibe, in Southern Lebanon, August 23, 2006. Two Lebanese men were allegedly detained and not yet released by Israeli troops as they passed through an Israeli checkpoint between two Lebanese villages,Taibe and Qantara, as Israelis once again violated the tenuous ceasefire between the two countries.
   
Sanaa Farhat, 26, greets friends and family outside of her home during her wedding ceremony of Israeli Arabs in Majd al Kurum village along the Lebanese border, in Israel, July 22, 2006. Life goes on in this primarily Muslim village as rockets continue to fall in the area and fighting persists inside Southern lebanon.
   
Emergency workers walk past one of at least 16 bodies pulled out of a home where three framilies were hiding out during the war in the village of Ainata about five kilometers from the frontline in south Lebanon, August 15, 2006. Emergency workers and volunteers began the grim process of unearthing the dead as the second day of theceasefire unfolded.
     
  
Abir Khalid, 5, cries during a funeral for the 23 villagers killed by an Israeli airstrike while trying to flee Marwaheen during the war, August 24, 2006. Hundreds of people gathered in Marwaheen in a funeral delayed because villagers have been too scared to return home as Israeli troops remain nearby, and funally laid their relatives to rest in a mass burial today.
  
Israelis look up at the smoke billowing across the sky after Hizbollah rockets set fire to patches of countryside near Kiriyat Shmona, in Northern Israel, July 24, 2006, in Israel. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon and Hizbollah fighters continue to send rockets into Israel.
   
Israeli soldiers continue fighting along the frontline as fierce fighting between Israeli and Hizbollah soldiers continues, in Northern Israel, July 26, 2006, in Israel. Civilians on both sides of the war continue to die as Israeli troops continued their air and ground assault across Lebanon and Hizbollah fighters continue to send rockets into Israel.
     
  
Israeli soldiers sit on a bus along the frontline in Northern Israel after coming out of fighting with Hizbollah fighters in Southern Lebanon, at dawn, July 28, 2006. Israeli soldiers are bing wounded and killed daily as fierce fighting continues and the war moves into its third week.
  
A Lebaese woman weeps as she walks past the destruction in Bint Jbail, one of the villages in South Lebanon most destroyed by the Israeli attacks during the war, Lebanon, August 17, 2006. Thousands of Lebanese continue to return home to find destroyed homes and the bodies of their loved ones as emergency workers and volunteers unearth the dead and sift through rubble.
   
Lebaese children play in the destruction in the village of Ait al Chab in southern Lebanon, August 27, 2006. Israeli troops began hanging their flags at camps in southern Lebanon, leaving a question in many Lebanese minds as to how the ceasefire is progressing.
     
  
A Lebanese family walks through the remnants of their home as it was left by Israeli troops who had been occupying it in the village of Taibe, in Southern Lebanon, August 23, 2006. Two Lebanese men were allegedly detained and not yet released by Israeli troops as they passed through an Israeli checkpoint between two Lebanese villages,Taibe and Qantara, as Israelis once again violated the tenuous ceasefire between the two countries.
   
Israeli soldiers sit on a bus along the frontline in Northern Israel after coming out of fighting with Hizbollah fighters in Southern Lebanon, at dawn, July 28, 2006. Israeli soldiers are bing wounded and killed daily as fierce fighting continues and the war moves into its third week.
   
Mustafa Olwan and his wife Fatima Asadi, await the remains of their apartment in the destruction in Beirut's southern suburbs as workers clean up debris and clear roads throughout the neighborhood, August 30, 2006. Lebanese families are still returning daily to the detroyed neighborhood to watch buildings be unearthed floor by floor, as they wait for their floor to appear to reclaim what belongings still remain.
     
  
Lebanese sisters from the Haj Hassan family lay out posters of Ayatollah Ali Khameini, Iran's Supreme Leader, in the village of Ait al Chab in southern Lebanon, August 25, 2006. Shiite Clerics are revered around southern Lebanon, and images of them can be seen in homes and on the streets throughout. Up to 6,900 European troops have been pledged to the expanded United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, European officials said today.
  
Locals walk through the rubble where Israeli paratroopers came into Tyre and faught a fierce battle with Hizbollah fighters in Tyre, Southern Lebanon, August 16, 2006. The procession of funerals continues throughout the south as families begin to unearth and claim bodies from the rubble.
  
Lebanese leave a massive demonstration led by Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrullah, to celebrate what Hezbollah is calling 'The Divine Victory' in Beirut's southern suburbs, in Lebanon, September 22, 2006. Nasrullah made his first appearance since the beginning of Lebanon's war with Israel, and about one million Hezbollah supporters arrived from around the country to participate in the rally.
     
  
Lebanese attend a massive demonstration led by Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrullah, to celebrate what Hezbollah is calling 'The Divine Victory' in Beirut's southern suburbs, in Lebanon, September 22, 2006. Nasrullah made his first appearance since the beginning of Lebanon's war with Israel, and about one million Hezbollah supporters arrived from around the country to participate in the rally.