In a professional training center on the outskirts of the Lebanese city of Tire, several families displaced for more than a year. They all left for localities in southern Lebanon for the exchange of daily fire between the Chií Milicia Hizbulá and the Israeli army since October 2023, as a consequence of the war in Gaza. In October 2024, Israel launched a great offensive against these populations and invaded the Lebanese territory located next to its northern border.
Lara, a 37 -year -old housewife and mother of three children, says that the town from which her family, Dahaira, is totally destroyed. Located a very short distance from the blue line – trained by the UN in 2000 to mark the territory from which Israel had to retire – is one of the localities that have been invaded by the Israeli military in October and November 2024.
What had stood after the intense bombing campaign was demolished with heavy or dynamited machinery. “It is not safe to return now, we hope to return but we do not know when,” he tells Eldiario.es Lara, in a classroom that has become his home in the past 15 months.
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With the desks, she has created a space where she cooks for the whole family, while her children (10, 12 and 14 years) are in school and her husband works. “I try to cook with what I have, especially with the vegetables of the country displaced women.
Lara is cleaning vegetables collected by her sisters and develops naturally in which she is already her kitchen. He admits that the most complicated to live in this temporary accommodation enabled by local shooting authorities is children’s management. “In the town, they were used to entering and leaving, to be in larger spaces,” he laments.
In the classroom, they have a stove for the cold and a fan for heat; and an essential water pipe. In the middle of the stay there is a table, around which the family sits to eat, for the day; In the same space, at night, it extends large carpets on which you place the sleep mattresses.
Lara, her husband and her children, as well as the nearly one hundred people residing in this highlighting institute, are waiting for the truce agreement between Israel and Hizbulá to be fulfilled, according to which both sides must withdraw from their positions between The blue line and the Litani River, in southern Lebanon. Libanese regular troops should be deployed in that area to protect the border of the country and Israeli forces would have to completely abandon the neighboring country before January 27. “We are waiting for the army to take control of the people of Dahaira,” says the woman, without much optimism.
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Israel does not comply with its part of the agreement
This Friday, the Israeli government has announced that the troops will not completely withdraw from southern Lebanon this Sunday. “The process of withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces is conditioned by the deployment in southern Lebanon of the Lebanese Armed Forces and their effective execution of the agreement, while Hizbulá withdraws north of the Litani River,” he explained in a statement The prime minister’s office, Benjamín Netanyahu, in which he has claimed that “Lebanon has not yet fully executed the Fire’s high agreement.”
For its part, the Lebanese army has been informing that it is being deployed in some southern towns, as the Israeli forces are withdrawn. This Friday, the Armed Forces have assured that their units are in the villages of Jebbain and Shihin, “after the withdrawal of the Israeli enemy” and in coordination with the committee that supervises the application of the agreement and with the provisional force of the United Nations for Lebanon (better known by its acronym in English, Unifil). The army has asked citizens not to approach the areas of which they are taking control, until completing the deployment and demining of these areas, because it can be dangerous.
Jebbain and Shihin are in the Tire region, where there are still more than 20,000 displaced, of which more than 500 people remain in several reception centers. Metrada Mehanna, in charge of the distribution of help in Tire, explains to Eldiario.es that “the displaced people who remain in shelters are a priority because they do not have other resources.” Every week or two weeks they give them hygiene kits, food and other basic supplies, man details.
Local authorities, with the support of Humanitarian Organizations and UN agencies, also offer support to those who have returned to their homes and have been found destroyed, providing blankets, mattresses and kitchen utensils. More than 870,000 people have been able to return to their areas of origin, according to the latest data from the International Migration Organization (IIM), while 113,000 remain displaced and most are in southern Lebanon – although the October Israeli offensive of October And November also had as its objectives the southern suburbs of the capital and the Bekaa Valley, in the east of the country.
Mehanna says that everyone will want to return to their homes when Israel retires, but it is not known if they will be able to live in them or install a tent in what remains of their home or on their land. Only in the shooting region, there are more than ten populations that are still prohibited to access. “I hope Israel marks and that people can return to their homes,” says the man.
The residents of the localities that have been occupied or attacked have to wait for the approval of the Lebanese authorities to be able to return to their homes, although many know that there is nothing left than their homes were.
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Ibrahim Himayed resisted leaving his people, Beit Lif, when the conflict began in October 2023. He sent his family to the reception center at the Professional Training Institute, where they all remain today. “I didn’t want to leave, but my family insisted and came a month later,” he tells eldiario.es in the patio where a woman tends clothes and several children play.
The 34 -year -old father was part of the emergency teams that rescued the victims of Israeli attacks. “During the month I was in Beit Lif, I dedicated myself to rescuing injured people and looking under the debris. But when violence increased, I and other companions left, ”says Himayed.
Beit Lif is now deserted and the rescuer believes that when they return to the town, they will find some corpses under the rubble. Almost 30 people from the town of a few thousand inhabitants lost their lives, according to Himayed, between October 2023 until November 2024. “In all villages there are martyrs,” he says.
The man is optimistic about the possibility of returning to his town when Israel retires and the Lebanese army indicates it. “Of course, there are some doubts, but I think this time is over” war.
Since this fire entered into force, on November 27, at least 29 Lebanese civilians have died from Israeli attacks, according to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
This Thursday, a statement from the Lebanese Ministry of Defense highlighted the “need” for Israeli troops to withdraw “within the period established by the provisions of the cessation of hostilities.” For its part, Hizbulá has rejected the possibility that Israel remains longer: “No violation of the agreement and its guarantees will be acceptable, and no attempt to avoid them under futile premises.” The Chií Group said in a statement this Thursday that Israel’s intentions require everyone to “act effectively, especially the political authorities of Lebanon to pressure countries that sponsor the agreement”; These authorities must also guarantee the deployment of the Lebanese army “until the last inch of territory” of Lebanon, according to the militia.
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The managers of the shooting center want Israel to retire as soon as possible and that the displaced people can begin to return to their localities. Hadi Karaouni, director of this professional training institute where southern displaced people have been relocated, explains to Eldiario.es that families occupy 12 classrooms on the first floor of the building, from the 2023-2024 course.
There are other classrooms destined exclusively to students of electricity, nursing, cuisine or computer science. “We cannot do the online classes because students require practical training,” laments Karaouni. “At first, we thought [los desplazados] They were going to spend a few days or weeks … ” Remember that during the most intense bombing campaign and the Israeli land invasion, the last October and November, the educational center only served as a refuge for the displaced.
The course began on November 4 and, after the entry into force of Alto El Fuego, at the end of that month, the students of FP could return to the classrooms. “Sometimes this is chaos, as you can see. Every day we have problems, but we manage them, ”says the director of the center in which families displaced with students continue to live together. Many of them spend time in the classrooms turned into their homes, whose doors appear to a dark and sad hallway in which time seems to have stopped.
An older woman complains that she has to clean the bathrooms that everyone shares: “They are guarros,” shouts. The displaced do not have showers or hot water, since these facilities do not exist at the FP Institute. Some volunteers arrive and leave trays with hot food in the hall, the little ones leave the classrooms to take the rations that correspond to each family unit: today touches soup, again, some girls protest. After 15 months, there is tiredness and tiredness, not only because of the menu but for this situation that was going to be temporary and has spread more than none would have imagined.
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