James Stout

Obviously, in places like the south, it has not held, and it's still ongoing with attacks coming from both sides.

In Beirut, you know, it's calm, in a sense, for this moment.

Like I mentioned, there's still a drone overhead at times.

There have been reports of warplanes flying over different parts of the country.

So, you know, there's still this doubt if this ceasefire, this truce will hold.

So we're kind of expecting or waiting any moment.

But I should say that this was also true of the 2024 ceasefire to an extent now in 2024.

Immediately the next day, people went home.

They drove home, they drove south, they went ahead with it.

Of course, the attacks from the Israelis did not stop in the south.

In Beirut and the southern suburbs, predominantly there were a few attacks in the southern suburbs, but not regular attacks.

You know, a kind of normalcy returned a bit.

However, there was still kind of this attitude of waiting and seeing what would happen because very few people trust the Israelis to stop the attacks.

Very few people trust that the

stop the war at this point in time.

They're stronger.

They're the hegemon in the region.

They control the skies.

To a large extent, they control the seas.

And now in southern Lebanon, they also, you know, to an extent, control parts of the land.