Defiance in Beirut's Hezbollah stronghold during fragile ceasefire

BBC correspondent John Sudworth reports from the Beirut stronghold of Hezbollah support, Dahieh. Copyright current_year BBC. All rights reserved. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking. Copyright current_year BBC. All rights reserved. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking. John Sudworth points towards rubble, the remains of a building, in Dahieh Defiance in Beirut's Hezbollah stronghold during fragile ceasefire Lebanon and Israel have agreed to renew a fragile ceasefire and create "pilot" security zones inside Lebanon in which Hezbollah operatives would be banned, a statement released by the US state department said. The agreement is contingent on "a complete cessation" of attacks by the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah, among other conditions. Hezbollah is designated as a terrorist organisation by Israel and many other countries, including the UK and US. The deal was announced on Wednesday, after Lebanon and Hezbollah fired rockets into northern Israel and Israeli strikes killed at least nine people in southern Lebanon. Lebanese state media has also reported that Israeli strikes continued on Thursday, with at least one strike causing casualties. BBC Correspondent John Sudworth explains why the ceasefire is so fragile in this report from the Hezbollah stronghold of Dahieh, in the Lebanese capital, Beirut. Verified videos show strikes on densely populated neighbourhoods in southern Lebanon. Tens of thousands of Israeli celebrants have marched through the area captured by Israel in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. The BBC’s Nawal Al-Maghafi has been piecing together what happened on 8 April 2026, after one of the deadliest chapters in the country’s recent history. 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