The ceasefire between Israel and Hizbullah holds, for now
People on both sides of the border are returning to devastated homes
On the outskirts of Tyre in southern Lebanon wailing mothers dressed in black gathered the bodies of their sons, which they had been unable to bury for weeks. In a village nearby, one man came home to find his dog had been shot dead; in another, a woman discovered piles of excrement in her bed. Others found that after months of Israeli bombing and ground operations by Israeli troops they no longer had homes to go to. On the other side of the border in Israel, most people’s homes were still standing. But thousands had been damaged by rockets fired by Hizbullah, the Iran-backed Shia militia that had dominated southern Lebanon.
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This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “A fragile ceasefire”
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