A displaced Lebanese family, carrying their belongings in the back of a pick up truck, returns to southern Lebanon across a damaged bridge hit by Israeli warplanes during monthlong operations, at the coastal town of Naameh, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2006. Tens of thousands of Lebanese jammed bomb-cratered roads as they returned to scenes of destruction after a tenuous cease-fire took hold.
Displaced Lebanese, returning to southern Lebanon, sit in the back of a truck with their belongings as hundreds of vehicles wait to cross a damaged bridge in the coastal town of Damour, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2006. Tens of thousands of Lebanese jammed bomb-cratered roads for a second day as they returned to scenes of destruction after a tenuous cease-fire ended 34 days of combat between Israel and Hezbollah.
Vehicles belonging to displaced Lebanese returning to southern Lebanon wait in line to cross a damaged bridge in the coastal town of Damour that was attacked by Israeli warplanes during the month-long military operation, south of Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2006. Tens of thousands of Lebanese jammed bomb-cratered roads as they returned to scenes of destruction after a tenuous cease-fire.
A soldier carries an Israeli flag after troops crossed the border from southern Lebanon into Israel near the border village of Malkiya in northern Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2006. Israel began thinning its troops in southern Lebanon, to prepare the handover of captured positions to a U.N. force, possibly within days.
Israeli soldiers smile as they walk down a dirt road while returning from southern Lebanon, in northern Israel near the Lebanese-Israeli border, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2006. Israel began thinning its troops in southern Lebanon, to prepare the handover of captured positions to a U.N. force, possibly within days.
A collapsed building, caused by an Israeli air strike about two weeks before the cease-fire, lies on the ground in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 14, 2006. Hours after a U.N.-brokered cease-fire took hold, thousands of Shiite refugees returned to disaster-stricken neighborhoods south of Beirut to check on their homes.
Lebanese citizens carrying their belongings walk through a crater on a road between the Lebanese and the Syrian checkpoints at the Masnaa crossing, in the eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 14, 2006, as they return to Lebanon after a U.N. cease-fire went into effect. The cease-fire went into effect after a night of heavy air strikes on Lebanon and 34 days of fighting that took more than 900 lives on both sides.
A Lebanese woman and her son survey the damage to their home from Israeli bombardments in the southern suburbs of Beirut, Monday, Aug. 14, 2006. Hours after a U.N.-brokered cease-fire took hold Monday, thousands of Shiite refugees returned to disaster-stricken neighborhoods south of Beirut to check on their homes.
A Lebanese woman inspects her apartment after returning to the village of Sadikin, west from Tyre, southern Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 14, 2006. A U.N. cease-fire went into effect Monday, after a night of heavy Israeli air strikes on Lebanon and 34 days of fighting that took more than 900 lives on both sides.
A displaced Lebanese man flashes a V sign as he sits in his car with his family, who fled their house following Israeli air strikes, as they prepare to return home after the U.N. imposed cease-fire took effect, at the Sanayeh Gardens public park, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 14, 2006. The family had been living in the park with other displaced families.
Displaced Lebanese citizens, who fled their homes in southern Lebanon following Israeli air strikes, listen to the radio as they wait for the announcement of the U.N. imposed cease-fire taking effect, at a school in the southern port city of Sidon, Lebanon, early Monday, Aug. 14, 2006, where they have been living with other displaced families.
Lebanese men hold up pictures of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah decorated with flowers on top of their car as they cruise the streets of the southern suburbs of Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Aug. 14, 2006, after a cease-fire took affect. Israel halted its offensive against Hezbollah guerrillas as a U.N.-imposed cease-fire went into effect after a month of warfare that killed more than 900 people.
Israeli brides and grooms from northern Israel wait to be married during a mass wedding in Tel Aviv, Monday, Aug. 14, 2006. Over 30 Israeli couples married on Monday after more then 70 weddings were canceled due to the monthlong fighting with Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.
An Israeli military ship cruises off the shore of the city of Haifa, northern Israel, as Israeli bathers enjoy the beach Monday, Aug. 14, 2006. A U.N.-imposed ceasefire went into effect Monday designed to end a month of violence that killed more than 900 people.