Kat Lonsdorf
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 25 Aug
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It kicked off this latest round of fighting by firing rockets into Israel in early March.
It's a legitimate part of Lebanon's government with several seats in parliament, but its military wing often operates independently of the state.
Hezbollah has been very against direct talks between Israel and Lebanon, and it's skeptical of a ceasefire with Israel.
Israel has been known to not respect them in the past.
You know, after Israel and Hezbollah reached a deal back in 2024, after the last war, UN peacekeepers recorded more than 10,000 violations of that ceasefire, nearly all of them by Israel.
And now Israel is occupying a huge swath of southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah put out a statement saying it will resist that occupation.
So it's unclear exactly how that will work within the context of this ceasefire.
Largely, no.
Both Israel and Hezbollah have told people it's still too dangerous.
About a fifth of Lebanon's population has been displaced in all of this.
We checked in with one man.
His name is Hussein Farhat.
He fled his home early in the war and has been staying in the center of Beirut.
He told us he might venture back to his house and shop to check on them, but a temporary ceasefire means he won't be going back permanently yet.
It's heartbreaking to just visit your home and then leave again, he says.
Absolutely heartbreaking.
You know, but for many of the people displaced, they don't have homes to go back to.
Israel has demolished more than 40,000 homes in the south, according to Lebanese officials, taking over whole villages to create what it calls a security buffer zone to keep Hezbollah from firing rockets into Israel.
It's not clear how long Israel intends to be there, but yesterday, after the ceasefire was announced, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, quote, we are not leaving.
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