Continuing hostilities in Lebanon as 1.2 million displaced sink into despair

Continuing hostilities in Lebanon as 1.2 million displaced sink into despair

Despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, Israel has continued striking Lebanon and its troops are occupying a strip of the south, destroying homes they describe as Hezbollah infrastructure. Hezbollah, meanwhile, has kept up attacks against Israeli troops in Lebanon and on northern Israel. The continuing hostilities have caused the displacement of 1.2 million people. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with IFRC spokesman Tommaso Della Longa about the hu…

Limbo in the south: Despite ceasefire, Lebanon’s displaced still await political pathway

On the night a ceasefire in Lebanon was announced, Amal and Hezbollah urged the over one million people displaced by the war to delay their return home until things were safer. But unwilling to wait even for daybreak, families began to stream back to southern Lebanon the minute midnight struck.  Israeli strikes had destroyed almost all bridges linking northwest to southwest Lebanon. Lebanese soldiers established a temporary crossing over the dam…