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Monday, April 20, 2026

Hundreds of thousands are weighing whether to return to homes in southern Lebanon that may no longer exist, even as Israeli forces remain and the risk of renewed violence lingers.

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... Imad Komeyha and his family spent 12 hours traveling from northern Lebanon back to Kfar Sir, a village in the south, only to find their house in ruins, laid to waste amid Israeli airstrikes.

He had been among 1 million people displaced by Israel's invasion, launched in March after Hezbollah, a powerful Iran-backed force in Lebanon separate from the government, fired rockets from Lebanon in retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran.

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the leaders of Israel and Lebanon had reached a 10-day ceasefire deal, but many returning to their homes in southern Lebanon found only destruction.

"I am devastated," Komeyha, a 62-year-old political analyst, told NBC News. "My eldest son is married and has a baby. He lives downstairs, in the same building, his house is also gone." ...


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