Lebanese and Israelis remain displaced as cross-border strikes intensify
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.