Kat Lonsdorf

Kat Lonsdorff, NPR News, Majdal Zoon, in southern Lebanon.

Looking south from a hill atop the village of Majdalzoun, you can see an Israeli flag waving in the wind over the neighboring Lebanese village.

Israel is still occupying a large swath of land in Lebanon's south, including dozens of towns and villages.

Hezbollah spokesperson Salman Harb tells NPR that the Iran-backed group does not agree with direct negotiations between Israel and Lebanon.

But if the result of the negotiations is that Israel will withdraw from the Lebanese land, Harb says, then we're fine with that.

But on the other hand, he says, if the land remains occupied, it's our right to resist that occupation.

Kat Lonsdorff, NPR News, Majdal Zoon, in southern Lebanon.

46-year-old Abir Mohammed Al-Masri has been living in a tent in a parking lot with her six kids for nearly seven weeks.

She says she'd much rather be in their apartment in the southern suburbs, but...

It's more of a truce than a ceasefire.

We can't go home yet.

Many of the more than one million people displaced in Lebanon during this war have headed back to the south, where much of the fighting was happening, despite warnings not to.

But Israel is still occupying about 10 percent of the country after destroying whole villages to create what it calls a buffer zone to keep Hezbollah from firing rockets into Israel.

Lebanese people from those villages cannot return.

Kat Wansdorff, NPR News, Beirut.

NPR's Kat Lonsdorf reports from Beirut.

46-year-old Abir Mohammed al-Masri has been living in a tent in a parking lot with her six kids for nearly seven weeks.

She says she'd much rather be in their apartment in the southern suburbs, but...

It's more of a truce than a ceasefire.

We can't go home yet.