In front of recent graves bearing three huge portraits in Deir Qanun al-Nahr, Shourouk Hariri, 32, wept for her twin brother and volunteer rescuer Ahmad, one of his colleagues, and her uncle, a local civilian."We arrived in the village yesterday and went straight to the place where Ahmad was killed, before coming here to the cemetery," said Hariri, dressed in black like her 10-year-old daughter by her side."We came here to understand what happened... we still can't believe he's gone," she told AFP.Displaced south Lebanon residents have started to return to their devastated villages and towns since an agreement announced between the United States and Iran to end the Middle East war and which is supposed to include Lebanon.Death has touched every family in the normally peaceful village, located in the hills not far from the coastal city of Tyre.Ahmad Hariri, also a photographer, left behind a wife and three-year-old daughter.Another uncle, Ali Hariri, said an Israeli strike killed his nephew and two other local first responders on May 22 as they tried to assist a family following an earlier raid along a road."We were a team of eight first responders, and we lost three. They were killed while carrying out their duty," said Hariri, wearing a pin of the three slain rescuers from the Risala Scouts Association, a group affiliated with Hezbollah's ally the Amal movement.'Martyrs and scholars'The village is known for its olive oil, but also as the hometown and resting place of Hashem Safieddine, who Israel killed days after he was chosen to succeed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah following the longtime leader's assassination in 2024 in a previous war."Deir Qanun is the village of martyrs and scholars," said Hussein Ghassani, a rescuer with the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee, near a gaping hole for fresh graves.