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Displaced families in southern Lebanon seek to return home
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said 4,335 people had been killed in Israeli attacks since March 2. Families who left the southern town of Mansouri held a demonstration calling for the attacks to stop so they could return home.
As Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon continued, families forced to leave the town of Mansouri in the Tyre district demonstrated to demand a return to their homes. The demonstrators gathered at a checkpoint established by the Lebanese army outside the town and, carrying Lebanese flags, called for the attacks to stop.
Fatma Mansour, who took part in the demonstration, said they had gathered to demand their right to return to the town. Mansour said residents had begun returning to their homes and resuming their lives despite difficult conditions after the ceasefire, and called for all towns in southern Lebanon to be freed from occupation.
Ahmed Safiddin, a member of the Mansouri Municipal Council, said they had organized a peaceful demonstration in solidarity with the town’s residents. Safiddin said they had been unable to enter Mansouri after an evacuation warning issued several days earlier and wanted to return to their normal lives.
Safiddin called on the relevant authorities to ensure that people could live on their land again in Mansouri, Beit al-Sayyad and Mansouri Meashaa. Many families had left the area after the Israeli army intensified its attacks on Mansouri and its surroundings last week.
Artillery fire in southern Lebanon
Ali Taher Hill in Nabatieh province, the area around Debsheh Hill and the Kfar Rumman region came under intermittent artillery fire beginning at midnight. The town of Bani Hayyan in the Marjayoun district was also attacked.
Israeli soldiers set fire to several homes in the town of Khiam, which they control in the south. The Israeli army, advancing toward the Houshayn area west of the town of Mais al-Jabal, also targeted a home with artillery fire.
A fire broke out in the area after machine-gun fire. A large-scale explosion was also carried out in the area between the towns of Kfar Tibnit and Arnoun in Nabatieh province.
Attacks and the ceasefire process
The Israeli army launched heavy airstrikes on Lebanon on March 2 and occupied many towns in the south of the country. The Lebanese government said the number of people displaced during this period had exceeded 1 million.
The ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, which took effect on April 17, was later extended several times. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said 4,335 people had been killed in attacks carried out since March 2.
A framework agreement was signed between Lebanon and Israel on June 26, following the fifth round of direct negotiations held in Washington.
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