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Lebanese refugees hope to return home as ceasefire with Israel is extended 95%
4/24/2026, 12:16:56 AM
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Marwa Yazbek is a 21-year-old student studying medicine.
She's from the southern suburbs of Beirut in Lebanon, which was ground zero for Israeli strikes when this war broke out.
>> The bomb strike beside us Uh-huh.
actually.
She now lives with her whole family among strangers in a school turned refugee camp, trying to study on her iPad while kids play tag in the halls.
The school building is housing more than 400 refugees, 120 children.
>> What is your name?
My name is Batoul Safa.
People fled their homes with limited possessions.
Here, there are no TVs, mattresses, and rugs are propped up to divide the space into makeshift rooms.
People are cooking and cleaning to keep a sense of normal life.
>> So, is this where you sleep?
Uh yes, we put them on the floor and we sleep normally.
There may be a fragile ceasefire, but Marwa has no idea when she'll go home.
>> It's hard to to not to not live now in our home.
>> She's not alone.
Over 1 million people are displaced in Lebanon, including more than 390,000 children, according to UNICEF.
Many of them from southern Lebanon, where Israel is holding on to a military buffer zone.
Hezbollah, the Lebanese military and political group directly fighting Israel, while designated a terrorist organization by the United States and a proxy of Iran, feelings about the group on the ground are complicated as they're integrated in the community.
>> Do you feel like Hezbollah is defending your area, defending your home?
They are protecting us from Israel and from everything that's going to be in the future.
But earlier this week, near one of Beirut's top universities, we spoke to people who felt differently.
Do you think more should be done to to fight Hezbollah?
I think it should be I think the Lebanese government should should take a stance and be basically this time and for me it's different from before.
I think the Lebanese government should set their foot down and say we we should handle it.
>> Down the road from where Marwa lived, we met a shopkeeper whose business was destroyed in an April 8th airstrike, known as one of the deadliest from the IDF since fighting broke out.
Within 5 days, he was back in business.
This country is not called Iran.
It's not called Israel.
This is Lebanon.
No one is allowed to take even a single inch of our land.
Israel says it's not leaving the buffer zone until Lebanon disarms Hezbollah.
The people we're speaking with overwhelmingly want to return to their homes, which means they don't want the government to compromise by giving up land.
How does it feel to you to have to leave your home?
>> Um It's It's It's not nice.
I feel I'm going to cry, but It's okay.
Um but we're strong.
And Yasmine joins me now from Lebanon.
Yasmine, good to see you there.
Talk to me about what you're hearing about this ceasefire extension from your sources right now on the ground.
Uh it's good news for um the Lebanese people and um the government certainly was in the camp of wanting to extend this ceasefire here in Lebanon, but this is certainly still an uphill battle.
Um they are very far apart when it comes to this buffer zone.
The buffer zone was a part of the original ceasefire in which Israel was supposed to pull out of that buffer zone.
They have not pulled out of that buffer zone.
That is a demand not just of the Lebanese government, but of the Lebanese people.
And so that certainly will be an uphill battle in getting Israel to pull out because their conditions are we will only retreat from the buffer zone if in fact you're able to um disable or disarm Hezbollah.
And that is going to be certainly an uphill climb uh as they look more towards getting a permanent end there into this war.
Really strong reporting there, Yasmine.
Thank you so much.
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