At least 22 killed after Israeli troops open fire on Lebanese civilians trying to return to villages

They think they are scaring us with their bullets, but we lived under the bombing, and bullets don’t scare us,

Mona Bazzi told the AFP news agency in Bint Jbeil

Hezbollah no longer wants any further confrontation with Israel; its goal is to protect its achievements in Lebanon,

he told AFP

We waited in a long line for hours but couldn’t enter,

Mohammed Choukeir, 33, told AFP from Meiss el-Jabal, noting

Hezbollah has been severely weakened by the war last year, but this was a message from the group that it has not been destroyed and it still has influence in this country,

she said

We are coming with our heads held high and crowned with victory to our village, Aitaroun,

said Saleem Mrad, head of the municipality

We have to give our blood and our souls. If there had not been blood spilled, the land would not have been liberated.”

Hassan al-Ahmad, a Aitaroun resident, said

Israeli enemy attacks as citizens attempt to return to their towns that are still occupied have led... to one dead and seven wounded,

the health ministry said Monday in a statement

We will not allow a return to the reality of Oct. 7,

he wrote on the platform X

It's the joy of return,

said Abu Matter, whose family was among the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled or were driven out of what is now Israel during the 1948 war surrounding its creation

We have been in agony for a year and a half,

said Nadia Qasem

Hassan Nasrallahhezbollah leader

I don't know how much we're going to wait, another month or two months... but the Sayyed will come out and speak,

he said using an honorific for Nasrallah

Unfortunately, we have no way of defending our own children without harming their children,

Weinberg, 58, said

The fact is that the timelines envisaged in the November Understanding have not been met,

the statement said

Imad Salameyimad Salamey is an Associate Professor.

Hezbollah’s military capabilities and regional influence have been diminished, leaving it more vulnerable to Israeli demands,

Imad Salamey, a political scientist at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, said

This reflects a broader vision of ensuring Israel’s security and influence in the region while preventing Hezbollah from regaining its former strength,

he said

We will return to our villages and the Israeli enemy will leave,

even if ... said Ali Harb, a 27-year-old trying to go to Kfar Kila

We are in our land and the enemy is the one who turned against the agreement and violated the agreement, and thus the people are the ones who are liberating their land with their own hands and blood, ... We want the state to play its role.”

he said, adding

Since the ceasefire agreement has yet to be fully enforced by the Lebanese state, the gradual withdrawal process will continue, in full coordination with the U.S.,

he said

The IDF must avoid firing at civilians within Lebanese territory. Further violence risks undermining the fragile security situation in the area and prospects for stability ushered in by the cessation of hostilities and the formation of a Government in Lebanon,

UNIFIL wrote

IDF troops operating in southern Lebanon fired warning shots to remove threats in a number of areas where suspects were identified approaching the troops,

the IDF wrote in a Sunday statement