They grew up amid olive groves in southern Lebanon. The son of one married the other's daughter. Now they're living temporarily in a vacant building in central Beirut, displaced many times.

Residents are wary that the truce may offer only a temporary reprieve after weeks of rocket fire by Hezbollah.

The halt to weeks of fighting is being celebrated in Lebanon, but it will be difficult to ensure it lasts.

Videos and photos circulated Thursday of the destroyed Qasmiyeh Bridge over the Litani River, the last remaining bridge linking southern Lebanon to the rest of the country. It connects the Lebanese cities of Tyre to Sidon. The bridge is about roughly 20 or so miles from the Israel-Lebanon border.

President Donald Trump said the United States has ​barred Israel from further bombing in Lebanon, striking an unusually harsh tone with the longtime U.S. ally while stressing that any U.S. deal ‌with Iran is not linked to the Lebanon conflict.

Israeli and Lebanese officials this week met in Washington for direct talks between two nations, which have technically been at war since 1948.

Lebanon's President Aoun will not speak with Netanyahu for now, a senior Lebanese official told Fox News Digital, dealing a setback to Trump's push for direct contact with Israel.

The Israel-Hezbollah war, temporarily halted by a 10-day cease-fire, has now opened a complex diplomatic process that seeks to end the conflict.