Sally Hayden

Hey, good morning.

Thanks for having me.

Yeah, I mean, I'm not actually sure, to be honest, because so a ceasefire came into force yesterday at midnight and huge numbers of people have now at least attempted to return home.

Many have returned home.

Obviously, the ceasefire is 10 days long.

That's what's been announced.

So, yeah, whether they will stay there or be able to stay there, we're not certain.

But I was actually inside Lebanon yesterday.

People started returning literally within half an hour or an hour of the ceasefire coming into force.

The roads were packed.

It was almost a standstill.

There were cars with mattresses loaded up and blankets loaded up.

And yeah, so a lot of people, they have at least attempted to return.

I know that some realized that the Israeli military is still in their areas, so they couldn't get back.

Some got back only to realize that their homes were destroyed and others stayed in displacement shelters or even like I met them also yesterday, people were just staying in tents.

In open areas because they said they have nowhere to go anymore or they're just scared.

So they sent like in one case, I met a grandmother who had her sons had gone back and she was minding her granddaughter and they were waiting for word as to whether it was okay for them also to go back.

You can cross the Litani River now.

There's been kind of what I understand to be a kind of attempt at repairing at least one of the bridges.

But yeah, it's very, very slow moving and people were waiting a huge amount of time to cross.