Displaced people who return to their village following the announcement of an initial ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, pass in front of people who check their destroyed houses in Deir Qanoun village, south Lebanon, Monday, June 15, 2026.(AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
The displaced are returning to destroyed homes in Lebanon after an initial agreement announcement to extend a shaky U.S.-Iran ceasefire.
People who return to their village following the announcement of an initial ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, gather with journalists at a destroyed street in Beer al-Salassel, south Lebanon, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)A Shiite sheikh who returns to his village following the announcement of an initial ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, collects religious books from his destroyed library in Deir Qanoun, south Lebanon, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)A displaced man packs his family belongings as he prepares to return to his village following the announcement of an initial ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)People who return to their village following the announcement of an initial ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, check their destroyed house in Deir Qanoun village, south Lebanon, Monday, June 15, 2026.(AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)A displaced woman checks her mobile phone as she waits to return to her village following the announcement of an initial ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)A sheikh who returns to his village following the announcement of an initial ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, stands in front of a destroyed house in Maaroub village, south Lebanon, Monday, June 15, 2026.(AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)A woman with her children returning to their village following the announcement of an initial ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, passes in front of their destroyed house in Deir Qanoun village, south Lebanon, Monday, June 15, 2026.(AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)Lebanese soldiers deploy in Beer al-Salassel village, south Lebanon, after people start returning to their villages following the announcement of an initial ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)Displaced residents drive back to their villages following the announcement of an initial ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, in Rmayleh, near the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, Monday, June 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Anouti)A woman who returns to her village following the announcement of an initial ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, handles a Hezbollah flag on the wreckage of her destroyed house in Maaroub village, south Lebanon, Monday, June 15, 2026.(AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)
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