Lebanese and Israelis remain displaced as cross-border strikes intensify

This picture taken from a position along the border in northern Israel on December 26, 2023 shows smoke billowing in the southern Lebanese village of Marwahin following Israeli bombardment amid ongoing cross-border tensions.

Boys play in the yard of a school where displaced Lebanese families from villages near the southern border took refuge in Tyre city, on October 19, 2023.

Israelis evacuated from northern areas near the Lebanese border due to ongoing cross-border tensions lift placards during a rally near the northern Amiad Kibbutz, demanding to return home on December 26, 2023.

A soldier stands near a car destroyed in a strike by Lebanon's Hezbollah movement in Kibbutz Manara in northern Israel near the Lebanon border, on November 27, 2023.

A picture taken in the southern Lebanese village of Meiss El-Jabbal, near the border with Israel, shows the rubble of a destroyed building following Israeli bombardment on December 26, 2023, amid ongoing cross-border tensions.

Israelis evacuated from northern areas near the Lebanese border due to ongoing cross-border tensions, lift Israeli and a Druze flag during a rally near the northern Amiad Kibbutz, demanding to return home on December 26, 2023.

Members of a family that was displaced from a village along the border with Israel in southern Lebanon sit on a mattress on the floor in an empty flat in the southern Lebanese village of Hasbaya on October 26, 2023.

Israelis evacuated from northern areas near the Lebanese border due to ongoing cross-border tensions, lift placards during a rally near the northern Amiad Kibbutz, demanding to return home on December 26, 2023.