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Mahmoud Haidar, the owner of the renowned home in our southern Lebanese village of Arab Salim, in response to the Israeli airstrike that destroyed the home he spent countless years building: "God has graced and honored us to be followers of Imam Ali ... I am honored to say to my children and grandchildren that God has graced and honored me to have lived in the era of men—the men of God and their master. ​I am ashamed to even say that I sacrificed the earthly debris of this world in comparison to the apple of their eyes (their children)."