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Lebanese villagers blocked from returning home as Israeli forces remain in area

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Israel pulled its forces from a key Gaza corridor Sunday as part of a fragile ceasefire deal with Hamas. Meanwhile, on Israel’s northern front inside Lebanon, concerns are mounting that its forces there may stay past a second deadline to withdraw by Feb. 18. Special correspondent Simona Foltyn reports from the Lebanese border. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Good evening. I'm Ali Rogan. John Yang is away. Israel pulled its forces from a key Gaza corridor today, which it used as a military zone during the war, cutting off the north of the Gaza Strip from the south. The withdrawal is part of a fragile ceasefire deal with Hamas.

0:16.5

Dron footage revealed the scale of destruction at the Netsarim corridor. People can be see sifting through

0:21.9

debris, carrying bodies, and making their way home. Meanwhile, on Israel's northern front inside Lebanon,

0:28.2

its forces there have already missed a deadline to withdraw, and concerns are mounting they may

0:33.3

stay past February 18th, a second deadline to pull out.

0:40.0

Simone Fultean is on the ground at the Lebanese border.

0:46.9

This is Yaron, one of several Lebanese border villages still under Israeli control.

0:53.1

Near the roadblock erected by the IDF, I met Mohamed Shaheen, the village chief.

0:56.5

He's a dual Lebanese American citizen who lived in California for almost two decades. We are at the main interests of Yaron. This is the east side

1:03.5

of Yaron. The Israelis are in this side. We have few standing house. I guess they want to destroy them before they leave.

1:12.6

Every day he and other villagers watch as the IDF demolishes more homes, some owned by American citizens like Shaheen.

1:21.6

They usually put the explosives. We can see them. Everybody can see them, they're visible.

1:28.3

Put in explosives next to the houses,

1:31.3

and by sunset they bombed them.

1:36.3

Yeah, they do three, four houses, five houses sometimes at a time.

1:41.3

Now if you stay later, you'll see them. You'll see them yourself.

1:52.6

We don't have to wait long. From afar, we film a group of Israeli soldiers entering a home.

2:00.7

Soon after, it's set on fire. It all happens in plain sight of the Lebanese army and UN peacekeepers.

2:06.2

The Israeli army is stationed in those houses over there just a few hundred meters away.

2:11.4

And when we pointed our zoom lens at them a little while ago, they fired warning shots in our direction. So it's pretty clear that they don't want to be filmed.

2:15.4

A third of Yaron's inhabitants are Christian.

2:18.3

The historic church now lies in ruins, as does Shaheen's 100-year-old family home.

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