Aitou, Lebanon: The pair go about their work in silence, unflustered by the crowd of military men, politicians and other onlookers gathered around them. Two young Red Cross workers in fluoro orange vests and purple medical gloves lay down a black sheet of fabric tenderly on the ground, as if it was a picnic blanket.
Opening the door of a bombed-out ute, its windows shattered into shards, they lift out the remains of a tiny baby and place it on the body bag. Paramedics identified 22 people killed here the previous day after an Israeli airstrike hit a home in this mountain village in northern Lebanon. Among them was a toddler. Eight others were wounded. Soon after we arrive at the site, another victim is discovered: a child, less than a year old, according to officials at the scene.