The truce, in force for 4 hours, interrupts the conflict, which has left thousands dead and 900,000 displaced in the country, also displacing tens of thousands of people in Israel. Without waiting for the agreement of the Lebanese army, thousands of Lebanese chased by the hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel took the road home Wednesday morning.
Thousands of residents of southern Lebanon, the southern suburbs of Beirut and the Bekaa, in the east of the country, all strongholds of Hezbollah, have also started to return home, journalists from the Agency noted France-Presse
In the southern suburbs of Beirut, still bombed at dawn on Wednesday, Hezbollah supporters rode on motorbikes, brandishing the party's yellow flag, some chanting slogans in praise of their leader killed at the end of September by Israel, Hassan Nasrallah, in sound of celebratory gunfire. The southern road was stormed by overloaded cars and vans, drivers honking and singing.
The Lebanese army, however, called on Wednesday morning “citizens to wait before returning to villages and towns located on the front (…) while awaiting withdrawal” Israeli forces, while the Israeli army warned residents not to approach positions where it remains deployed – and said it fired on a vehicle doing so, forcing its occupants to turn back – or villages where she ordered the evacuation.
