Current sectionMiddle East NewsLebanon News A UNIFIL source told Haaretz that Israeli forces last demolished villages on Wednesday, before the ceasefire announcement. An Israeli source said the halt is part of understandings reached in talks, while Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem rejected the agreement and demanded a full Israeli withdrawalShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeLiza Rozovsky08:02 PM • June 06 2026 IDTThe Israeli military has halted the destruction of villages in southern Lebanon following the announcement of a cease-fire on Thursday, a source in the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon told Haaretz on Saturday.Loading...Click the alert icon to follow topics:LebanonIDFUNIFILHezbollahCease-fire/hostage release talksCommentsLoading...In the NewsIn the News: Israel-Iran Live UpdatesWest BankIranSmotrich1967HaQuizHaaretz Podcast146 Killed in 157 Days: Young Man Shot to Death in Druze Israeli-majority TownIDF Strikes Kill 10 in Southern Lebanon, Including Three Lebanese TroopsNHS to Ban pro-Palestinian, pro-Israeli Symbols Amid U.K. Antisemitism ReformsIDF Soldier Filmed Beating Palestinians in Settler Raid on West Bank TownThe Ballots That Challenge a Core Myth of Israeli PoliticsRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIFar-right Israeli Ministers Join Thousands at Israel Day Parade in New YorkIsrael's Solution to the Gaza Problem Is Well Underway'Israel Is Unstoppable, We Need Other Countries to Get Us Out of This''Fucking Crazy': Trump Lashes Out at Netanyahu Over Lebanon, Report SaysThe Paradigm That Led to Oct. 7 Didn't Collapse, It Was Fiction From the StartManufactured Nostalgia for Lebanon's Beaufort Masks a Strategic Failure