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

Protesters carry Hezbollah flags near an Israeli military vehicle as people gather in Borj El Mlouk on January 26, 2025 (Rabih DAHER / AFP)
Protesters carry Hezbollah flags near an Israeli military vehicle as people gather in Borj El Mlouk on January 26, 2025 (Rabih DAHER / AFP)

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.”

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