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PBS News Hour - Segments

Southern Lebanon weighs losses from Israeli strikes as ceasefire hangs by a thread

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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During a meeting in the Oval Office on Thursday, Israel and Lebanon agreed to extend their ceasefire by three weeks. But on the ground, the truce has been unravelling, with multiple violations by both Israel and Hezbollah, the Iran-backed militant group. Special correspondent Simona Foltyn reports from southern Lebanon. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Israel and Lebanon have agreed to a ceasefire for another three weeks,

0:05.0

but even as that extension was being negotiated,

0:07.0

the truce has been unraveling on the ground.

0:10.0

That's with multiple violations by both Israel and the Iran-backed militant group, Hezbollah.

0:16.0

Special correspondent, Simone Fultin, reports now from southern Lebanon.

0:20.0

The people of Aitit have returned to bury their dead.

0:24.6

The temporary ceasefire is hanging by a thread, but it has given villagers in southern Lebanon

0:30.6

a brief window to come home and take stock of all that's been lost to Israeli bombs.

0:35.6

Lubna Sleiman mourns her brother, Hassan Sleiman, a civil defense work. stock of all that's been lost to Israeli bombs.

0:37.7

Lubna Sleiman mourns her brother, Hassan Sleiman, a civil defense worker.

0:42.5

He is just one of 100 first responders killed by the Israeli military.

0:50.3

There's nothing Israel won't target.

0:52.5

They don't spare first responders, they don't spare

0:54.8

children. He was a medic who was rescuing people who were dying and he was hit. What is

1:02.4

the reason? They were clearly marked as an ambulance.

1:05.6

Hassan, seen here in the picture to the left, was killed alongside his colleague Yusuf Ali Atawi.

1:13.6

Israel targeted their ambulance on March 23rd, but until the ceasefire came into force last week,

1:19.6

heavy fighting made it impossible to bury them.

1:22.6

Yusuf's wife, now widow, is pregnant with their first child.

1:26.6

I spoke to her sister, Mariam.

1:29.3

My sister is expecting a baby, her first son.

1:33.3

We are very angry.

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