Sally Hayden

And we really have no idea whether the ceasefire is going to hold.

So even those going back, they were saying, you know, is this a good idea?

I was in a shelter yesterday.

A stadium in Beirut was turned into a shelter and 1,500 people have been sheltering there.

And the volunteers there, they said only a few dozen families had gone back because they were worried they'd lose their spots in the shelter.

So they don't want to, in case the ceasefire doesn't hold, they didn't want to leave most of them.

But yeah, I mean, people, they certainly are going back.

Also, so much is destroyed in the south and in the east as well.

And they reach southern suburbs that even if their home isn't destroyed, the infrastructure often is either lacking or, you know,

very poor or destroyed and so yeah there's going to be a lot of problems if people do stay as well.

Yeah, I actually asked a few people that yesterday.

One paramedic who had just been reunited with his family, his colleague was killed on Wednesday.

And I'm sure people saw it was called a triple tap strike that hit three successive kind of first responder groups, according to witnesses.

And I asked him, like, how, you know, how are you holding up?

And he said basically he just feels like he has a duty to be resilient because this is his land.

he doesn't want to leave but then i was also on thursday at the funeral of the brother of one of those paramedics who was killed and a lot of people have been buried in temporary burial sites so because it wasn't safe to return they were buried somewhere else first and then their families will take them back and the brother broke down crying

for quite a while and then he said actually he wants to say that men in particular what he was saying is that a lot of the men have been forced to be strong to protect their families during this time and you know to keep going and he wanted to say that they should also express their emotions because

He felt like this is, you know, wound upon wound basically is being inflicted on people and that's quite, you know, it's not healthy.

But of course, like the scale of this is, you know, it's impossible really to explain because there's been this all that war.

But then before that, there was 15 months of, you know, what people here call a one-sided ceasefire where attacks did continue on a near daily basis from Israel.