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Lebanese trickle home as ceasefire with Israel mostly holds

Daily Maverick · · 679 words · By Reuters
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14 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“Israel destroyed all the bridges over the Litani during the war, blowing up the one at Qasmiyeh on Thursday.”
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The provided web search results for this claim are generic descriptions of Israel and do not mention bridges over the Litani River or the bridge at Qasmiyeh.
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web search NEUTRAL — Host Yehuda Kurtzer, president of the Shalom Hartman Institute, talks with leading thinkers to unpack current events affecting Jewish communities in North America, Israel, and around the world ...
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 days ago · Israel is a country in the Middle East, located at the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea. Jerusalem is the seat of government and the proclaimed capital, although the latter status has…
https://www.britannica.com/place/Israel
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web search NEUTRAL — The names Land of Israel and Children of Israel have historically been used to refer to the biblical Kingdom of Israel and the entire Jewish people respectively.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel
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“U.S. President Donald Trump announced the ceasefire between the governments of Lebanon and Israel on Thursday.”
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Only one relevant source (The Hindu) confirms that U.S. President Donald Trump announced a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon on a Thursday. Other search results are irrelevant.
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web search NEUTRAL — U (minuscule: u) is the twenty-first letter and the fifth vowel letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet and the alphabets of other western European languages and others world…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U
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web search NEUTRAL — U is the on demand home of U&Dave, U&Drama, U&W & U&Yesterday. Stream thousands of hours of the best comedy, drama, entertainment & documentaries for free.
https://u.co.uk/
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web search NEUTRAL — Find the latest travel deals on flights, hotels and rental cars. Book airline tickets and MileagePlus award tickets to worldwide destinations.
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“The Lebanese government... has sought its [Hezbollah's] peaceful disarmament for a year.”
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The provided evidence consists of general descriptions of Lebanese people and restaurants; there is no mention of the government seeking Hezbollah's disarmament for a year.
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web search NEUTRAL — Lebanese people (Arabic: الشعب اللبناني / ALA-LC: ash-shaʻb al-Lubnānī, Lebanese Arabic pronunciation: [eʃˈʃæʕeb ellɪbˈneːne]) are the people inhabiting or originating from Lebanon. The term may also …
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_people
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web search NEUTRAL — See more lebanese restaurants in Albuquerque. What are people saying about lebanese restaurants in Albuquerque, NM? This is a review for lebanese restaurants in Albuquerque, NM: "I recently tried Saha…
https://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=lebanese+restaurants&f…
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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 17, 2026 · The Lebanese people (Arabic: الشعب اللبناني / ALA-LC: ash-shaʻb al-Lubnānī [eʃˈʃaʕeb ellɪbˈneːne]) are the people inhabiting or originating from Lebanon. The religious groups among the …
https://alchetron.com/Lebanese-people
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“The Lebanese army reported violations of the ceasefire by Israel, including intermittent shelling of several southern Lebanese villages”
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Three independent sources (L'Orient, SANA, and another news report) confirm that the Lebanese army reported Israeli ceasefire violations involving intermittent shelling of southern villages.
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web search NEUTRAL — lebanon ceasefire 2026. Lebanese Army reports Israeli 'cease-fire violations'.In a statement, the army called on citizens to hold off on returning to southern villages and towns. There was no immediat…
https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1503829/lebanese-arm…
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web search NEUTRAL — Lebanon's army on Thursday (local time) accused Israel of violating the ongoing ceasefire, citing multiple attacks and intermittent shelling in southern regions, even as it urged residents to avoid re…
https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/lebanese-army-a…
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web search NEUTRAL — Israeli nighttime shelling in southern Lebanon. Beirut, April 17 (SANA) The Lebanese Army said late Thursday that Israel has violated the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon several times since it came i…
https://sana.sy/en/information/2310951/
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“Hezbollah, a Shi'ite Muslim group founded by Iran's Revolutionary Guards in 1982, opened fire in support of Tehran on March 2.”
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Wikipedia and the FBI report confirm that Hezbollah was founded by Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in 1982. However, the specific date of 'opening fire on March 2' is not explicitly confirmed in the provided snippets, though the foundational fact is verified.
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web search NEUTRAL — Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party with an active paramilitary wing that has been banned by the Lebanese government since March 2026, amid Israel's war on Lebanon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah
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web search NEUTRAL — Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was founded by Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in 1982. Both Hezbollah and the IRGC are designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the United States…
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/03/30/attack-on-michigan-sy…
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web search NEUTRAL — The Iran-backed Shiite militia was considered the most powerful non-state group in the Middle East, but an Israeli military campaign against Hezbollah in 2024 has considerably weakened it.
https://www.cfr.org/backgrounders/what-hezbollah
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“The war killed more than 2,100 people in Lebanon and forced some 1.2 million from their homes, according to Lebanese authorities”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists only of dictionary definitions for the word 'according' and contains no factual data regarding casualties or displacement.
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web search NEUTRAL — The meaning of ACCORD is to grant or give especially as appropriate, due, or earned. How to use accord in a sentence. Did you know? Synonym Discussion of Accord.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/according
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web search NEUTRAL — The term according to can be used to attribute something reported — according to the news, the airports are closed (even though according to your friend, they're still open). It also refers to agreeme…
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/according
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web search NEUTRAL — Phrasal verb accord with something (Definition of according from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/accor…
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“Hezbollah attacks killed two Israeli civilians, while 13 Israeli soldiers were killed in Lebanon since March 2, Israel says.”
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One source (Satellite images reveal scale of Israeli demolitions...) explicitly states that Israeli authorities reported 13 soldiers and two civilians killed by Hezbollah over the past six weeks. Other results are generic.
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web search NEUTRAL — Hezbollah is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party with an active paramilitary wing that has been banned by the Lebanese government since March 2026, amid Israel's war on Lebanon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hezbollah
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web search NEUTRAL — Israeli authorities said 13 soldiers and two civilians have been killed by Hezbollah over the past six weeks. Lebanese hilltop border towns and villages are now hard to recognise.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxkk1vnp57o
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web search NEUTRAL — Despite the ceasefire, the Israeli military has launched new air attacks on southern Lebanon while issuing forced displacement orders for two more towns. Hezbollah, meanwhile, has reported several att…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/1/us-israel-attacks-on…
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“Hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel during the war.”
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Multiple sources (Wikipedia, Israeli Army Radio, and another news report) confirm that Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel.
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web search NEUTRAL — Hezbollah launched more than 200 rockets at Israel in the past 24 hours, with 127 crossing into Israeli territory — nearly matching the roughly 300 missiles Iran has fired since the war began.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rkkndueq11x
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web search NEUTRAL — An Israeli airstrike in Dahieh targeting Mohammed Srur, the commander of Hezbollah's drone unit, killed two people including the target and injured at least 15 others including a woman.[132][133]. App…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israel–Hezboll…
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web search NEUTRAL — Preventive strike by Israel. Israeli Army Radio, citing officials from the defense ministry, reported that, according to military assessments, Hezbollah was preparing to launch hundreds of rockets at …
https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/hezbollah-launched-hundreds-…
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“Lebanon had agreed to "take care of Hezbollah".”
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“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he... would maintain an extensive "security zone" up to the border with Syria.”
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“Israeli forces have invaded areas of southern Lebanon, and had vowed to maintain control over territory extending all the way to the Litani River”
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“Israel ordered residents out of the area south of the Litani during the war.”
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“Trump said he would be inviting Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun to the White House”
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“two countries, which have technically remained in a state of war since Israel was established in 1948.”
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