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Over 600,000 Displaced Lebanese Return Home Amid Ceasefire: IOM
The IOM said about 500,000 people remain displaced as Lebanese authorities clear shelters and damaged border towns stay uninhabitable.
- On Thursday, the International Organization for Migration reported that 646,107 IDPs have returned to their communities in Lebanon since the ceasefire began on June 21.
- A ceasefire agreement signed last month by Tehran and Washington ended fighting that began March 2, when Tehran-backed Hezbollah fired rockets following the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
- Despite the returns, about 500,000 people remain displaced, as massive destruction makes it impossible for residents to return to dozens of towns near the southern border.
- Israeli officials vow their forces will remain in a "security zone" 10 kilometres deep despite the ceasefire, while troops occupy swathes of territory in southern Lebanon.
- The US-backed framework agreement calls for the disarmament of Hezbollah and gradual withdrawal starting with two "pilot" areas, though the deal lacks a timetable and faces rejection from Hezbollah.
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More than 600,000 Lebanese internally displaced persons have returned home since the last truce, at the end of June, in hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.
·Montreal, Canada
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The protocol of agreement signed on June 17 between Tehran and Washington made it possible for a precarious ceasefire in Lebanon to come into effect from June 21.
After months of fleeing the war between Hezbollah and Israel, more than 640,000 internally displaced people have returned to their homes in southern Lebanon, according to the UN migration agency IOM.
·Stockholm, Sweden
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Total News Sources20
Leaning Left3Leaning Right5Center1Last UpdatedBias Distribution56% Right
Bias Distribution
- 56% of the sources lean Right
56% Right
L 33%
11%
R 56%
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