🇱🇧 | “They will not erase our identity!” Despite relentless shelling, bombing, demolitions, and incursions, Lebanese people continue to reaffirm their attachment to their land and their refusal to be displaced. Villages along the Litani River, which Israeli forces have sought to establish as the new boundary of their occupation, are slowly coming back to life. According to residents, a return to the river is possible today only "thanks to the fighters and the resilience of the people of southern Lebanon." Despite the latest ceasefire announcement, more than 375,000 people remain displaced from their villages, which are either still under Israeli occupation or have been bombed and demolished outright. The ongoing, widespread, and deliberate destruction of Lebanese towns and villages by Israeli forces, alongside mass displacement, could amount to war crimes, according to the UN. Meanwhile, the Lebanese government is set to continue US-mediated talks with Tel Aviv in Rome next week, even as Israeli PM Netanyahu has reiterated his refusal to withdraw from positions inside Lebanon. Israeli forces still hold the so-called "Yellow Line" in the south, which extends roughly 10 km inland and in places crosses the Litani.