One man said he was too ashamed not to be able to help his family...

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LEBANON: Displaced and desperate as bombing continues

BEIRUT, 22 July (IRIN) - "May I have some more water?" asked Samah Al-Saad as she handed over a bucket to her neighbour, Souad Hammood, in Al-Bashoura, a crowded mainly Shi'ite area of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

Hammood filled the bucket halfway and handed it back. "I just can't spare any more," she apologised. snip

"We can't stay like this for much longer," said the 60-year-old Hammood. Besides the sheer discomfort and tension of being displaced, there is also the matter of "pride", which gets stepped on day after day, she explained.

"We never seem to get any peace," said Hammood, who lived through Lebanon's long civil war between 1975 and 1990. "We are again refugees in our country, and again, no one seems to care!"

The men of the two families didn't want to be interviewed. One said he was too ashamed not to be able to help his family, and "just talking about our problems won't fix them."