Lebanon-Ceasefire/Residents/Return
Lebanon-Ceasefire/Residents/Return
Dateline : April 17, 2026
Location : Lebanon
Duration : 2'15
Lebanon - April 17, 2026 (CGTN - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of vehicles moving toward evacuated regions in southern Lebanon
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hussein Jishi, member, Lebanese Parliament Representing Hezbollah (ending with shot 3):
"No matter how much the enemy kills and destroys, you see the people's will. From midnight till morning and for days to come, our people insist (on staying in their land)."
3. Traffic jam
4. Various of residents holding pictures
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Rabab Abou-Khalil, displaced southern Lebanon resident:
"I'm proud that my 11 family members got martyred for this. I raise my head high in pride that our houses were demolished as a sacrifice to push the enemy away. My cousins, my husband, and my children got killed, and I still have two more, whom I am ready to sacrifice in defense of the Islamic resistance."
6. Lebanese soldiers driving heavy machinery to pave way for residents
7. Vehicles passing through mud path
8. View of damaged neighborhood from moving vehicle
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Nassif Nazagh, Srifa resident (ending with shot 10):
"My neighborhood has not changed. Even if it's destroyed, it remains the same here in my heart. It's engraved there. We are a nation undefeatable. If we are martyred, we win."
10. Various of destroyed residential buildings, residents, vehicles
11. Responders searching in rubble
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hadi Qassim, first responder, Islamic Health Society Jouaiyya (partially overlaid with shot 13, ending with shot 14):
"There was a morgue here, and in it were about 30 bodies of our martyrs. This was a usual strike, where they harm us. There was nothing here. Three of my colleagues were working there, and the fighter jet struck them. This makes us more persistent and stronger. It shows that we are on the right path."
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13. Rubble
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14. Hadi Qassim walking with resident
15. Various of destroyed residential building, rubble
Thousands of Lebanese people are heading back to their homes in south Lebanon after a 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel took effect on Friday, despite warnings against their return.
Both the Lebanese military and the Israel Defense Forces have warned them not to rush back home, as Israeli troops have not withdrawn. Yet, thousands are on their way, celebrating what could be a fragile ceasefire as a sign of victory.
"No matter how much the enemy kills and destroys, you see the people's will. From midnight till morning and for days to come, our people insist (on staying in their land)," said Hussein Jishi, a member of the Lebanese Parliament representing Hezbollah.
Rabab Abou-Khalil, a displaced southern Lebanon resident, stood along the roadside to greet returning Lebanese, along with her sisters. They held pictures of the late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Hezbollah's secretary general Hassan Nasrallah.
"I'm proud that my 11 family members got martyred for this. I raise my head high in pride that our houses were demolished as a sacrifice to push the enemy away. My cousins, my husband, and my children got killed, and I still have two more, whom I am ready to sacrifice in defense of the Islamic resistance," she said.
For many returnees, the way home was blocked by a destroyed bridge, which was bombed on Thursday to prevent residents from returning. However, the road was cleared when the Lebanese military created a mud path for vehicles to cross in just a few hours.
As people head back to evacuated villages, they are seeing the scale of destruction for the first time, but it has not changed their feelings about their home.
"My neighborhood has not changed. Even if it's destroyed, it remains the same here in my heart. It's engraved there. We are a nation undefeatable. If we are martyred, we win," said Nassif Nazagh, a resident in Srifa.
In Jouaiyya, another southern municipality, the scenes of mass rubble look no different than those in Srifa, yet they tell another unique story.
"There was a morgue here, and in it were about 30 bodies of our martyrs. This was a usual strike, where they harm us. There was nothing here. Three of my colleagues were working there, and the fighter jet struck them. This makes us more persistent and stronger. It shows that we are on the right path," said Hadi Qassim, a first responder for the Islamic Health Society Jouaiyya.
ID : 8475370
Published : 2026-04-18 16:59
Last Modified : 2026-04-18 22:06:33
Source : China Global Television Network (CGTN)
Restrictions : No access Chinese mainland
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