Today's ceasefire deal could bring welcome relief to those caught in the middle of the war between Israel and Hezbollah.

But the more than one year of fighting has already destroyed many lives and livelihoods, including those of the many Syrian refugees who are sheltering in Lebanon.

It's led to a steady flow of those people trying to return to Syria,

which is east of Lebanon.

Special correspondent Leila Molana Allen

takes us to meet people desperate to cross the border.

On the road again.

More than a decade after the Syrian Civil War

drove millions of refugees into neighboring Lebanon.

War has come to their new home.

Israeli airstrikes have left hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees, as well as Lebanese, running for their lives.

This is a common scene here now.

Families huddled under one borrowed blanket,

children playing barefoot in the street.

Many of these families have tried to find places in a shelter.

They're often turned away.

So they sleep here on the streets, in mosque courtyards, in a disused parking lot.

Look, he tells me, this is where we cook, we eat, we dress, everything.

Iqlas and her six children have been living here since the Israel Hezbollah war began.

In the first week, a strike hit the house next to theirs in South Lebanon.

I was at home with my daughters and all I saw was a plane flying over the building in front of us.

In seconds it became fragments. Some fell onto our balcony.

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