Ceasefire has come to Lebanon after 14 months of fighting, at long range and close to, between Hezbollah and Israel. And, for the first few hours at least, most of the shooting and bombing appears to have stopped.
The fighting, opened by Hezbollah in support of Hamas in Gaza on 8th October last year, has cost at least 3,700 civilian lives. Great chunks of South Beirut suburbs have been bombed to the ground, and villages of the Shia community, from which Hezbollah fighters are recruited, have been razed in South Lebanon.
