As it intensifies its war in Gaza in the south, Israel also remains in a simmering conflict on its northern border with Lebanon.

Under a ceasefire agreement, Israel was supposed to withdraw from the area in January,

but the military has recently expanded its presence, stating that the militant group Hezbollah was in violation of the terms and an active threat.

Special correspondent, Simona Fultin, brings us this report.

An Israeli flag firmly planted on Lebanese soil.

This military base in Hula is one of several new posts the IDF has set up in Lebanon in recent months. A roadblock erected by the Lebanese army is as far as we can go.

Next to it, the burnt hulk of a car, hit by Israeli fire, serves as a warning.

You see that machine gun they put up on the base?

If we get close to those barrels, they shoot immediately. Haseain Kthesh, a former member of Hula's municipal council, who used to live just past the roadblock.

His house is nothing more than a pile of rubble.

That's my house over there. You see that column, that tree, just 20 meters from here.

My house went in an air raid, but the rest of this neighborhood was booby-trapped and detonated on a single day.

The IDF base in Hula is located around 500 yards inside Lebanon's territory.

It has cut off the main road tracing the border.

More than 50 family homes used to be in that area, including Hussain's,

raised to the ground as part of what Amnesty International has called a deliberate destruction

of civilian property.

In the abandoned village center, Ali Hsaint, the newly elected mayor, told me that a third

of Hulas agricultural land remains inaccessible.

Farmers can't live away from their land. They depend on it to survive.

They must return to cultivate.

The mayor says that the IDF has killed five civilians as they tried to return to their land.

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