BEIRUT, Lebanon: Lebanese people are angry at the government which received hundreds of millions of dollars to repair the damage done in last year’s Hezbollah-Israel war and yet the recovery procedure is very slow.

Tammam Qansou's two children still remember where their house once stood before it was flattened by Israeli missiles.

"Ten days after the war was over we received $10,000 from Hezbollah," she says. "But we still have not received one dollar from the government and it's been nine months."

There is similar resentment throughout the Dahiya neighbourhood in Beirut, an area that is a stronghold of Hezbollah.

Hassan Nasrallah, the group's leader, says the government is punishing people for their loyalty to Hezbollah and trying to turn them against his party.

A day after Nasrallah’s comments, Fuad Siniora, the prime minister, tried to defend his government.

"There has been no delays made by the government," he said. "One has to really understand the complications."

Around 25,000 apartments were partially or completely destroyed in Dahiya during last year's 34-day war with Israel that caused billions of dollars worth of damage to Lebanon’s infrastructure.

The government inspected 10,000 and approved payment for around 6,000. But so far it has only paid out for just over 1,000 homes.

Another local resident believes the government response has not been enough.

"Hezbollah, a political party, was able to do all its assessment in weeks. How come this government with all its institutions is still not done?" he says.