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Displaced Lebanese begin returning home as ceasefire with Israel ...
Open this photo in gallery:Displaced residents return in a vehicle loaded with belongings to Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Friday, April 17, 2026, following a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)Bilal Hussein/The Associated PressA 10-day truce began in Lebanon on Friday that could pause fighting between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group and boost attempts to extend the ceasefire between Iran, the United States and Israel after weeks of devastating war.U.S. President Donald Trump announced the agreement as a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. However, Israel has not been fighting with Lebanon itself, but rather with the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants inside the country, who were not formally part of the agreement.Barrages of gunshots rang out across Beirut as residents fired into the air just after midnight to celebrate the beginning of the truce.Displaced families began moving toward southern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs, despite warnings by officials not to attempt to return to their homes until it became clear whether the ceasefire would hold.In the southern village of Jibsheet, a trickle of residents returned to flattened apartment blocks and streets littered with chunks of concrete, twisted aluminum shutters and dangling electrical wires.“I feel free being back,” 23-year-old Zainab Fahas said. “But look they destroyed everything: the square, the houses, the shops, everything.”Open this photo in gallery:Smoke rises after an Israeli strike in Nabatieh, Lebanon, on Thursday.Stringer/ReutersEarlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he agreed to the ceasefire “to advance” peace efforts with Lebanon, but said Israeli troops would not withdraw.Israeli forces have engaged in fierce battles with Hezbollah in the border area as they pushed into southern Lebanon to create what officials have called a “security zone.” Mr. Netanyahu, in his video address, said it will extend 10 kilometres into Lebanon.“That is where we are, and we are not leaving,” he said.Hezbollah said that “Israeli occupation on our land grants Lebanon and its people the right to resist it, and this matter will be determined based on how developments unfold” – a stance that could complicate the ceasefire.How U.S. hopes to resolve Iran conflict with economic warfareThe U.S. State Department said that according to the agreement reached between the two sides, Israel reserves the right to defend itself “at any time, again...
Thousands head home as US-brokered truce holds in Lebanon
BEIRUT (AP) — A fragile calm settled over parts of Lebanon on Friday as a 10-day ceasefire brokered by the United States took hold between Israel and Hezbollah, prompting thousands of displaced families to begin the journey home — even as uncertainty, destruction and Israeli warnings against going back to parts of southern Lebanon clouded their return.By early morning, cars were backed up for kilometers on the route leading south to the damaged Qasmiyeh bridge over the Litani River, a key crossing linking the southern coastal city of Tyre to the north. Vehicles piled high with mattresses, suitcases and salvaged belongings crept forward through a single reopened lane, hastily repaired after an Israeli airstrike just a day earlier.Drivers heading back to their villages along coastal highways cheered each other, flashed victory signs and exchanged blessings. The latest Israel-Hezbollah war displaced more than a million people. Despite warnings from Lebanese officials that they should not immediately attempt to return to their homes, many began moving toward southern Lebanon in the hours after the ceasefire was declared. The truce appeared to be largely holding overnight. 1 MIN READ 2 MIN READ 4 MIN READ In southern villages like Jibsheet, a trickle of residents returned to flattened apartment blocks and streets littered with chunks of concrete, twisted aluminum shutters and dangling electrical wires. “I feel free being back,” said Zainab Fahas, 23. “But look they destroyed everything — the square, the houses, the shops, everything.”Many did not believe that their ordeal was really over.“Israel doesn’t want peace,” said Ali Wahdan, 27, a medic walking on crutches over the rubble of the emergency services’ headquarters in Jibsheet. He was badly wounded in an Israeli airstrike that hit the building without warning during the first week of the war.“I wish it were different,” he said. “But this war will continue.” In the neighborhood of Haret Hreik in Beirut’s southern suburb, entire buildings had been reduced to rubble after weeks of intense Israeli strikes. Ahmad Lahham, 48, waved the yellow Hezbollah flag standing on a mountain of rubble that used to be his apartment building, which had also housed a branch of Hezbollah’s financial arm, Al-Qard Al-Hassan.“We are at the service of the fighters,” said Lahham, pledging his loyalty to the group.He praised Iran and said its pressure in its talks with the U.S. led to the truce, condemning Lebanon’s direct talk...
Many displaced Lebanese returned to their homes on Friday ...
2 hours ago ... Many displaced Lebanese returned to their homes on Friday, following the start of the 10-day ceasefire between #Hezbollah and #Israel. According to...
Displaced families returned to southern Lebanon on Friday, hours ...
3 hours ago ... Displaced families returned to southern Lebanon on Friday, hours after a 10-day cease-fire pausing Israel's military campaign against Hezbollah went into...
