Jane Aref

And all of that, of course, is overshadowing the original U.S.

reason for going to war, which was reportedly to stop Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Well, it's a very fragile ceasefire.

Israeli forces moved into the south with more than 1 million people displaced and more than 2,000 Lebanese killed, many of them civilians, killed in what Israel says is a campaign against Hezbollah.

Israel says 16 of its soldiers have been killed.

This morning, Israel warned displaced villagers not to return to villages in the south.

But it's important to remind people many of them have no homes to go back to.

Israel has been destroying some of those villages to create what it calls a buffer zone.

That's NPR's Jane Aref.

And amen.

Thank you, Jane.

Thank you.

Ayim Qasim said the killing of his chief of staff

Haitham Ali Tabtaba'i in Beirut was blatant aggression and that Hezbollah would determine the time of its response.

He said the fact that the Lebanese government was calling for Hezbollah to further disarm while Israel was regularly attacking Lebanon despite a ceasefire was serving Israeli interests.

He said Israel had killed Hezbollah's leaders and fighters and destroyed homes, but they had not destroyed the resistance movement.

For NPR News, I'm Jane Araf in Beirut.