Mohammed Qassim sit before his neighbor's house woodenly, holding the portraits of his 7family members, who, with 20 other villagers, were killed by Israeli bombardment in Qana in southern Lebanon on July 30.

Qassim, 38, lost all his family members in the horrible Qana incident, which killed 27 civilians, and has to go on life alone in the future.

"Yesterday I buried my family. Now I have nothing but their pictures," Qassim muttered, gazing at the portrait of his two-year-old daughter, who is looking from the picture in big watery eyes with curiosity.

Spreading the pictures on his lap with trembling hands, Qassim could not help sobbing and moaned, "For what I have to endure this? I'm not a Hezbollah, I never took part in any resistance."

He told Xinhua reporters that many of male villagers in Qana are Hezbollah members who took part in the resistance during the conflict with Israelis, but he has kept away from them because he did not want to risk his family.

"But I lost all of them finally," said Qassim, shaking his heads lightly.

"All my family members were taking shelter in the building hit by Israeli missile on that night, but only me survived the doomed night," he said, adding hastily that "I preferred to die with them rather than live alone."

After this word, he fell in a silence with tears bursting out his eyes again.

Mohammed Ali, a Qassim's neighbor who sit besides him, clapped Qassim's back with his right hand gently in an effort to comfort him.

Ali also held in his left hand three pictures of his daughter, younger brother and sister.

"Don't be so sad. They did not die at all, they just went to see Allah earlier than us," Ali, who sustained wound on his right leg in the incident, said in a hoarse voice, which revealed that he is not so strong as what he pretended to be.

Feeling guilty of tearing their wounds cruelly, Xinhua reporters stopped asking them more questions about the terrible night and stood up to say good-bye to them.

While a photographer handed the villagers cigarettes with words of "Made in U.S.A", both Qassim and Ali refused to accept and said indignantly that "America is ally of Israel who killed our families."

"We do not use anything from that country," Qassim said in a steady voice, adding "I will be a Hezbollah member in the future as now I have no family."

After saying good-bye to Qassim and Ali, we went toward the entrance of Qana village, where we saw a fresh grave yard of 29villagers.

Twenty-seven of them died in the July 30 incident, while the other two Hezbollah guerrillas died in fighting with Israel.

In front of every gravestone, green olive branch, which resembles peace, was planted.

But people wonder whether a long-lasted peace can eventually come down to the Qana village and south Lebanon as a whole, since retaliation is deep rooted in hearts of both sides of the conflict.