(28 Nov 2024)
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Nabatieh, southern Lebanon – 28 November 2024
1. Various of displaced people returning by vehicle, destroyed buildings, people walking
STORYLINE:
Residents of Lebanon’s southern city of Nabatieh, heavily damaged by Israeli bombardments, started returning home Thursday, one day after a cease-fire between Hezbollah and Israel was agreed upon.
Across the country, thousands of Lebanese displaced by the war between Israel and Hezbollah militants returned home as the agreement took hold.
If it endures, the cease-fire would end nearly 14 months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, which escalated in mid-September into all-out war.
The truce in Lebanon could give reprieve to the 1.2 million Lebanese displaced by the fighting and the tens of thousands of Israelis who fled their homes along the border.
The deal does not address the war in Gaza, where Israeli strikes overnight on two schools-turned-shelters in Gaza City killed 11 people, including four children.
The U.S.- and France-brokered deal, approved by Israel late Tuesday, calls for an initial two-month halt to fighting and requires Hezbollah to end its armed presence in southern Lebanon, while Israeli troops are to return to their side of the border.
Thousands of additional Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers would deploy in the south, and an international panel headed by the United States would monitor compliance.
More than 3,760 people have been killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon since the start of the conflict, many of them civilians, according to Lebanese health officials. The fighting killed more than 70 people in Israel, more than half civilians, as well as dozens of Israeli soldiers fighting in southern Lebanon.
AP video shot by Bassam Hatoum
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