(27 Nov 2024)
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Tyre, Lebanon – 27 November 2024
1. Lebanese army APCs (Armoured Personnel Carriers) passing on highway to Nakoura
2. Various of vehicles carrying displaced Lebanese from Tyre returning back, destroyed buildings in background
3. Various of Hezbollah supporter distributing red ribbons to drivers
4. Various of destruction
5. Hezbollah supporters chanting UPSOUND (Arabic): “We are at your service, Nasrallah”
6. Various of destroyed car and building
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Zainab Askar, displaced from Seddiqine:
“It’s the best feeling that we have been liberated and returned home with thanks (to) the blood of the martyrs of the resistance. With thanks to our resistance, we are always victorious and will always be well."
8. Various of destruction
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Batoul Daouq, displaced from Tyre, Hezbollah supporter:
“This is my house right here that was destroyed. And we lost a lot of loved ones. But thank God. We are paying with blood, but we are victorious."
10. Various of destruction
11. Hezbollah supporter firing gun in air
STORYLINE:
Lebanese residents on Wednesday began streaming into the south, as the ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was taking effect.
Hours before the ceasefire took hold, Israel launched broad strikes that shook the Lebanese capital Beirut and a volley of rockets from Hezbollah set off air raid sirens across a large swath of northern Israel.
But after the ceasefire took effect early Wednesday, quiet appeared to take hold, prompting waves of Lebanese to head home.
Israel’s Arabic military spokesperson Avichay Adraee warned displaced Lebanese not to return to their villages in southern Lebanon.
The Lebanese military asked displaced returning to southern Lebanon to avoid frontline villages and towns near the border where Israeli troops are still present until they withdraw.
On the highway linking Beirut with south Lebanon, thousands of people drove south with their belongings and mattresses tied on top of their cars. Traffic was gridlocked at the northern entrance of the port city of Sidon.
Residents will return to vast destruction wrought by the Israeli military during its campaign, which flattened villages where the military said it found vast weapons caches and infrastructure it says was meant to launch an Oct. 7-style attack on northern Israel.
More than 3,760 people have been killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon the past 13 months, many of them civilians, according to Lebanese health officials.
Hezbollah emerges from the war battered and bloodied, with the reputation it built by fighting Israel to a stalemate in the 2006 war tarnished.
Yet its fighters still managed to put up heavy resistance on the ground, slowing Israel’s advance while continuing to fire scores of rockets, missiles and drones across the border each day.
“It’s the best feeling that we have been liberated and returned home with thanks (to) the blood of the martyrs of the resistance," said Zainab Askar, a displaced woman from Seddiqine. "With thanks to our resistance, we are always victorious and will always be well."
Sporadic celebratory gunfire was heard at a main roundabout in the city, as people returning honked the horns of cars and residents cheered.
AP Video shot by Fadi Tawil, Mahmad Aounti
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