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Sat 07 Jul 2006'Nobody cares . . . We have been left to die' LEBANON: Houada fixes one hazel-coloured eye on a point high above her hospital bed. Her other eye is gone, gouged out by a piece of shrapnel when an Israeli missile hit her family's home this week.In its place is a thick bandage that fails to hide the row of stitches crudely keeping one side of her face together.