Fragile ceasefire allows mass return to shattered Lebanese villages

Tens of thousands of Lebanese civilians streamed back to the south on Friday after a tenuous 10-day truce between Lebanon and Israel came into effect. Many returned to homes scarred or obliterated by over a month of heavy Israeli bombardment. Despite warnings from the Lebanese army urging caution, residents flowed into areas like Nabatieh—among the hardest-hit—refusing to abandon their land. The devastation was overwhelming. “Wherever you look, you see destruction, you see lives uprooted,” descr