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Residents are returning to a largely destroyed village in southern Lebanon after a US-brokered agreement opened the area to civilians as part of efforts to end the latest fighting between Israel and the Iranian-backed Hezbollah.

They are finding shattered or blackened homes, with damage as intimate as a bullet-pocked mirror or graffiti thought to be scrawled by Israeli forces. The turquoise roof of a mosque’s minaret has been cracked.

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