Looking out from a friend's balcony, Milia el-Cheikh struggled to find her own home in the ruins of her now-deserted village, its entrances strung with barbed wire. Her home village of Dibbine is one of several Shiite-majority towns and villages across southern Lebanon that have been destroyed by Israeli forces, who are battling the Iran-backed Hezbollah group and have occupied vast areas despite a string of declared ceasefires related to the larger Iran conflict.