From the New York Times, it's the headlines.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

Today's Friday, April 17th.

Here's what we're covering.

My colleagues and I are walking down the main highway that connects Beirut to southern Lebanon.

We left our car because the traffic

coming down here is so bad. Thousands of families who were displaced from their homes in the south

have been making their way back since the announcement of a ceasefire. Times reporter Christina Goldbaum

is on the ground in Lebanon, where a 10-day ceasefire went into place late last night,

intended to stop the fighting between Israeli forces and the Iran-backed militant group, Hezbollah.

Since the Israeli military has bombed the two main bridges connecting the north to the south

along this highway, there's now just this one crossing, kind of dirt ad hoc road crossing

that people are using. Their cards are going one by one across, meaning that many are probably

going to stay here throughout the day, maybe even through tonight, trying to get back to their homes

in the south. Now there's still this kind of uneasy feeling. People have been telling us that they

aren't sure whether the ceasefire will hold or what will come next.

But many have also said that they at least want to go and see their homes, see their lands,

and get a sense of what is left after the last month and a half of war.

Israel's been carrying out its latest military campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon since

March. More than 2,100 people have been killed and more than a million have been displaced,

according to Lebanese authorities. The fighting has also threatened to derail the U.S.'s

ceasefire with Iran. With that in mind, the U.S. had really been pushing for this deal. President Trump

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