Celebrations broke out across Lebanon overnight after Israel agreed to a 10-day ceasefire, following U.S.-brokered talks to end seven weeks of attacks that have killed nearly 2,200 people in Lebanon, including 172 children. Israel continued airstrikes right up until the ceasefire took effect Thursday evening, including attacks on the city of Tyre that killed at least 13 people; elsewhere, Israel bombed a school in southern Lebanon and blew up the last bridge over the Litani River, further isolating southern Lebanon from the rest of the country. Israeli forces now occupy about 10% of Lebanon’s territory, with an estimated 1.2 million people displaced from their homes. This is Ibrahim Suwaydi, a 30-year-old living in a tent in Beirut after he fled Israeli strikes on the suburb of Dahiyeh.
Ibrahim Suwaydi: “They gave a 10-day ceasefire, but we don’t accept that. Ten days? If we want to go back to our homes 10 days and the war returns, we don’t want that. Either our land is fully returned, or we don’t want the ceasefire. We’ll continue with the war. My home in Dahiyeh in Beirut’s southern suburbs has been destroyed. Who will compensate me?”
After headlines, we’ll go to Beirut for the latest.










