Lebanon calls on civilians to ‘exercise self-restraint’ as they try to return to villages despite IDF presence
Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

The Lebanese army calls on civilians to “exercise self-restraint” and follow its instructions as people begin to return to villages in south Lebanon, despite the IDF presence there.
In a statement, the Lebanese Armed Forces says it is accompanying civilians entering several villages in south Lebanon, “amid the Israeli enemy’s persistence in violating Lebanon’s sovereignty, its attacks on citizens, causing martyrs and wounded among them, and its refusal to abide by the ceasefire agreement and withdraw from the Lebanese territories it occupied.”
تواكب وحدات من الجيش دخول المواطنين إلى بلدات: عيتا الشعب – بنت جبيل، ودير سريان، عدشيت القصير، الطيبة، القنطرة – مرجعيون، إضافة إلى مناطق حدودية أخرى، وسط إمعان العدو الإسرائيلي في خرق سيادة لبنان، واعتدائه على المواطنين موقعًا بينهم شهداء وجرحى، ورفضه الالتزام باتفاق وقف إطلاق… pic.twitter.com/YuG7Jgfl8N
— الجيش اللبناني (@LebarmyOfficial) January 26, 2025