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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Lynn Rusk

Expats and Britons with family in Lebanon express relief at ceasefire

Expats and Britons with family in Lebanon said they were relieved by the ceasefire agreed between Israel and Hezbollah but their fears of further violence remained.

Ahmed Hankir, 42, a professor in psychiatry, said his elderly parents were forcibly displaced to Beirut after the fighting escalated in September and that the couple planned to return home to south Lebanon now the 60-day ceasefire had commenced.

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