Lebanese given conflicting information about whether they can return home, as Israeli army strikes cars and areas along boundary
Hezbollah has vowed to continue resisting Israel and is monitoring its army’s withdrawal from south Lebanon “with their hands on the trigger”, said the militia in its first comments since a ceasefire went into effect on Wednesday.
The Iran-allied Shia group did not directly mention the truce, but said its fighters “remain fully equipped to deal with the aspirations and assaults of the Israeli enemy”. Hezbollah also remained committed to the Palestinian cause, said the statement from its operations centre late on Wednesday.
A 60-day staged withdrawal, in which Israel will pull out of Lebanon and Hezbollah will move its fighters and heavy weaponry out of a 16-mile (25km) deep boundary buffer zone, went into effect at 4am local time on Wednesday.
Thousands of displaced people in Lebanon have packed up their belongings and attempted to return to their abandoned homes in the south amid contradictory statements from officials. Lebanon’s speaker of parliament, Nabih Berri, the top interlocutor for Lebanon in negotiating the deal, said that residents could return home, while Israel has warned them not to.
