The Israeli army has banned residents of several villages in southern Lebanon from returning home until further notice.
An Israeli military spokesman announced in Arabic on X that the army did not want the villagers to be in danger of becoming targets.
He named more than 60 villages near the Israeli border that are part of a restricted area that Lebanese are currently not allowed to enter.
The difficultly negotiated ceasefire agreement includes a provision that Hezbollah withdraw to the Litani River, about 30 kilometers north of the Israeli-Lebanese border, in accordance with a UN resolution.
The sites in the restricted area are all on or south of the Litani River. Until this morning, access to the entire area south of the river was prohibited for fourteen hours. Now access there is no longer prohibited to all places.
Israeli ground forces will gradually withdraw from Lebanon within sixty days. However, the army says it is still currently operating in the south of the neighboring country to take action against ceasefire violations.
The intense mutual attacks between Hezbollah and Israel ended Wednesday morning at the start of the ceasefire. However, there are still isolated incidents.
Thousands of displaced Lebanese had left for their hometowns in the south after the ceasefire began.
