The Lebanese Army is working to decommission weapons from militant groups like Hezbollah and clear southern Lebanon of unexploded ordnance under a US-led framework agreement between Israel and Lebanon. The mission is taking place in "pilot zones," small pockets of territory previously under Israeli military control. But the mission comes with serious challenges and risks: persistent Israeli airstrikes and unexploded ordnance. CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports on the Lebanese Army unit handling this dangerous mission.
CNN gained rare access inside Israeli-occupied south Lebanon, where predominantly Shia Muslim towns and homes have been reduced to rubble. Three Christian villages have been spared Israel's demolition policy, but their residents are cut off from the rest of the country. The Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) is trying to regain control over southern Lebanon through a US-backed framework meant to transition control of Lebanese territory currently occupied by Israeli forces — known as "pilot zones." CNN exclusively joined the Lebanese army on patrol to one of those areas. Jeremy Diamond has the story.
On "Sunday Report," Newsmax Foreign Correspondent Trent Murray travels to the Israeli-Lebanese border — including the border towns of Kiryat Shamona and Metula — to assess just how fragile the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah really is. With rockets still flying, IDF clearance operations ongoing in Southern Lebanon, and US-Iran negotiations continuing in the background, Murray speaks exclusively with an IDF Brigade Chief of Staff who reveals what his troops found inside Lebanese civilian homes and schools — and why Israel says it has no choice but to maintain a security buffer along the border. For the people living on both sides, a lasting peace still feels far away.
