The Israeli forces remain in some regions of Lebanon despite the deadline for withdrawing on Tuesday

On Tuesday, the Israeli forces withdrew from the border villages in southern Lebanon, according to a deadline that was clarified in a ceasefire agreement in the United States. He ended the last Israel-Hezbah war, but it remained in five strategic locations inside Lebanon.

Senior Lebanese leaders denounced the presence of the continuous Israeli forces as an occupation and violation of the deal, while maintaining that Israel was required to conduct a full withdrawal by Tuesday. The presence of the forces is also a painful point for the Hezbollah Armed Party group, which demanded that the authorities be taken.

The Lebanese soldiers moved to the areas where the Israeli forces withdrew and began to purify the road barriers established by the Israeli forces and verify unnecessary ammunition. They prevented the main road leading to the villages, which prevented anyone from entering while the army was looking for any explosives that left behind.

Most of the villagers on the side of the road waited for permission to go and check their homes, but some have paid road barriers to the march. Elsewhere, the army allowed residents to enter.

Many of their homes were demolished during the conflict that lasted for more than a year or two months after the ceasefire agreement in November, when the Israeli forces were still occupying the area.

“Nothing remains.”

In the border village of KFAR Kila, people were amazed at the amount of destruction, as complete sections of the houses were eliminated.

“What I see is beyond belief. I am in shock,” said Khudo Suleiman, a building contractor, referring to his destroyed home on the top of the hill.

“There are no houses, no plants, and nothing remains,” said Suleiman, who was the last time in Kafr Kela six months ago. “I feel a mixture of happiness and pain.”

In the main village square, the Lebanese forces were deployed as a military jarfa, removing the rubble from the street.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the Israeli army “will remain in a buffer zone in Lebanon in five monitoring sites” to protect from any violations of the ceasefire by Hezbollah. He also said that the army held new positions on the Israeli side of the border and sent reinforcements there.

“We are determined to provide full security for every northern society,” Katz said.

The rest of the Israeli violates the ceasefire deal

However, the three senior officials in Lebanon – the president of the country, the prime minister and the speaker of Parliament – said in a joint statement that the continued presence of Israel in the five positions was violating the ceasefire agreement. They called on the United Nations Security Council to take action to force the full Israeli withdrawal.

The statement said, “The continuous Israeli presence in any inch of Lebanese territory is an occupation, with all the legal consequences that result from this in accordance with international legitimacy.”

The presence of the Israeli forces was also criticized in a joint statement by the United Nations Special Coordinator, Lebanon, Janine Henis Blaastiire, and the head of the country’s peacekeeping force, Lothanant General Aroldo to Zaro.

However, the two warned that this should not be “overwhelmed with the tangible progress made” since the ceasefire agreement.

“No houses, buildings stand”

Near the Lebanese villages, Deir Mimas and Kfar Kela, hundreds of villagers were collected early on Tuesday morning when an Israeli plane flew.

ATEF Arabi, who was waiting with his wife and two daughters before sunrise, was keen to see the rest of his home in Kfar Kila.

“I am very happy that I will return even if I find my home destroyed,” said 36 -year -old car mechanics. “If I find my home destroyed, I will rebuild it.”

Later on Tuesday, the mayor of KFAR Kila, the Sheras, the Associated Press that 90 percent of the village homes were completely destroyed, while the remaining 10 per cent was damaged.

“There are no houses or buildings standing,” he said, adding that rebuilding will start from scratch.

The Lebanese Armed Group, Hezbollah, started to launch the cross -border missiles on October 8, 2023, one day after the deadly incursion into Hamas in southern Israel, which sparked the war in Gaza. Israel responded to the bombing and air strikes in Lebanon, and the two sides became closed in an escalating conflict that became a full war last September.

More than 4,000 people were killed in Lebanon, and more than a million people were displaced at the height of the conflict, and more than 100,000 of them were able to return to the homeland. On the Israeli side, dozens of people were killed and anchored about 60,000.

Hussein Wares Kfar Kila left in October 2023 for the southern city of Nabatiyeh. When the fighting intensified in September, he moved with his family to Citton, where they were given a room in a homeless residential school.

Kfar Kila saw an intense fight, and later Israeli forces detonated many of their homes.

“I was waiting for a year and a half,” said Fares, who has a pickup truck and works as a worker. He said he realizes that the reconstruction process would take time.

“I was counting seconds for today,” he said.