Returning Lebanese find destroyed homes and razed neighborhoods among rubble

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00:00A day after the truce came into effect, it's already looking shaky.

00:05The Lebanese army accused Israel of violating the ceasefire several times on Wednesday and

00:10Thursday.

00:11This, after Israeli warplanes fired on a Hezbollah weapons facility in southern Lebanon, hours

00:17after its tanks fired on people trying to return to certain areas, which it called a

00:21violation of the ceasefire.

00:24Under the agreement, Israeli forces have 60 days to return to their side of the blue line

00:30and Hezbollah to withdraw north of the Litani River, leaving a buffer zone to be patrolled

00:35by Lebanese troops and UN peacekeepers.

00:38The Israeli military has advised Lebanese not to return to their homes near the border

00:42yet and also announced a night time curfew in south Lebanon from 5pm Thursday till 7am

00:48the following day.

00:50Nonetheless, tens of thousands of Lebanese who fled their homes continue to head back

00:55to their towns and villages across the south, only to find scenes of devastation.

01:00It's really tough.

01:02We never imagined it would be like this.

01:04We saw the pictures, but when we came and saw it in person, it was really difficult.

01:10We got here last night and the smoke was so thick, we couldn't take it.

01:15It's heartbreaking, honestly.

01:17It breaks your heart because we don't deserve this.

01:20Despite the ceasefire breaches, the clear-up has already begun in parts of the south.

01:24The country faces a long road to recovery.

01:27The cost of damage to housing is estimated at 2.8 billion dollars, with more than 99,000

01:33housing units destroyed, according to a World Bank report.

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