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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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William Christou in Beirut

‘We want to be 100% sure’: war-weary Lebanese greet truce with caution

Two people on a small roadside amid buildings turned to rubble
People check over a destroyed home in Beer al-Salassel, south Lebanon as they return on Monday after the latest ceasefire. Photograph: Mohammed Zaatari/AP

Hours after the US-Iran ceasefire was announced, residents of south Lebanon began to race back to their villages. One man filmed as he drove into the entrance of Harees, his arrival interrupted as the car in front of him suddenly veered off the road. An Israeli armoured vehicle was parked in the middle of the road less than 100 metres ahead; he scrambled to turn around.

“It was packed with explosives. I guess they still want to blow things up,” said Abdullah al-Ali, a municipal official in Harees. Ali said that the entrance to the town had been blocked off after two other explosive-laden vehicles left by the Israelis were discovered in the area.

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