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  "textContent": "\n\n\n\nIsrael said its military had been instructed to use \"full force\" against imminent threats in Lebanon despite a truce there and vowed to level homes allegedly used by Hezbollah, with state media reporting demolitions were underway on Sunday.\n\nWhile some displaced south Lebanon residents have rushed back to their homes, many are hesitant to return, uncertain about the durability of the 10-day truce, which came into effect on Friday and halted weeks of fighting between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah.\n\nIn the village of Dibbine, an _AFP_ correspondent saw a man inspecting damage to his home and people walking near the rubble of destroyed buildings.\n\nIn Srifa, another correspondent saw people unloading belongings including mattresses and a washing machine as they returned to the southern village.\n\nElsewhere, an _AFP_ correspondent saw people travelling away from the south after retrieving belongings from their homes.\n\nIsraeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had instructed the army \"to act with full force, both on the ground and from the air, including during the ceasefire, in order to protect our soldiers in Lebanon from any threat\".\n\nHe said the military had also been ordered to demolish any structure or road that was \"booby-trapped\", and \"to remove the houses in the contact villages near the border that served in every respect as Hezbollah terror outposts\".\n\n### 'Fait accompli'\n\nLebanon's state-run _National News Agency (NNA)_ said that \"the Israeli enemy is still destroying what remains of houses\" in Bint Jbeil on Sunday after reporting demolitions in the town a day earlier.\n\nLocated around five kilometers (three miles) from the Israeli border, Bint Jbeil saw heavy fighting between Israeli forces and Hezbollah before the ceasefire.\n\nThe _NNA_ also said the Israeli army was \"blowing up houses in Mais al-Jabal\" and \"carrying out a sweep operation and detonations\" in Deir Seryan, both also near the border, while the town of Kunin \"was subjected to enemy artillery shelling\".\n\nOn Saturday, Israel's military said it had established a \"Yellow Line\" in south Lebanon, similar to the one in Gaza that separates areas held by Israeli forces from those controlled by militant group Hamas.\n\nOn Sunday, the military published a map showing its \"forward defense line\" and an area in red stretching along the length of the Lebanese border where it said forces were operating \"to dismantle Hezbollah terror infrastructure sites and to prevent direct threats to communities in northern Israel\".\n\nTurkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Sunday denounced what he called \"Israeli expansionism\" in Lebanon, accusing it of seeking to create a \"fait accompli\" despite the ceasefire.\n\nThe truce took effect days after the first high-level meeting between Lebanon and Israel in decades, pausing a war that has killed nearly 2,300 people in Lebanon and displaced more than a million since it broke out on March 2.\n\n### France visit\n\nOn Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron will meet Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam in Paris in a visit aiming to demonstrate Macron's commitment to the ceasefire and France's support for Lebanon's \"territorial integrity\", the president's office said.\n\nMacron is also to urge Lebanese authorities to prosecute those responsible for an attack on UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon on Saturday that killed one French soldier and wounded three others.\n\nFrance and the force have blamed Hezbollah, which denied involvement.\n\nSalam's office said the premier would first travel to Luxembourg on Tuesday \"to meet EU foreign ministers\" ahead of the Paris visit.\n\nEarlier Sunday, Lebanon's military said it had reopened a road linking the city of Nabatiyeh with the Khardali area, and had \"partially reopened the Burj Rahal-Tyre bridge\" in the country's south.\n\nIsraeli strikes on bridges across Lebanon's Litani River, which flows around 30 kilometers north of the Israeli border, have largely cut off the area from the rest of Lebanon, according to the army.",
  "title": "Israel vows to level homes in Lebanon, counter threats with 'full force'"
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