![]() ![]() Some Lebanese took the opportunity to inspect their damaged houses or to pick up belongings.Ībdallah Quteish, a retired school principal, and his wife, Sabah, fled their house in the village of Houla - directly facing an Israeli military position across the border - on the second day of the clashes. While Lebanon and Hezbollah weren’t officially parties to the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, it has brought at least a temporary halt to the daily exchanges of rockets, artillery shelling and airstrikes. ![]() The fighting has killed more than 100 people in Lebanon, including more than a dozen civilians - three of them journalists - and 12 people on the Israeli side, including four civilians. Shuttered shops reopened, cars moved through the streets, and a family on an outing posed for photos in front of brightly colored block letters proclaiming “I (HEART) ODAISSEH” in one border town, with the tense frontier as a backdrop.Īround 55,500 Lebanese are displaced by the clashes between the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and Israeli forces since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, according to the International Organization for Migration. With a cautious calm prevailing over the border area in south Lebanon on Saturday, the second day of a four-day cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, villages that had emptied of their residents came back to life - at least briefly.
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