EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Alon Ben-Meir is fairly certain that they will "reconstitute themselves." However, there is still time for both Israeli and Lebanese communities who have been displaced from their homes to return to their towns and villages during this truce.

The bursts of violence — with no reports of serious casualties — reflected the uneasy nature of the ceasefire that otherwise appeared to hold as Lebanese troops began to deploy in parts of southern Lebanon.

The ceasefire agreement between Hezbollah and Israel brokered by the United States and France was characterized by President Biden as an attempt to deliver a "permanent cessation of hostilities."