SIDON/BEIRUT ¨C The ceasefire agreed to in Lebanon last month has brought little respite for civilians, who are being driven from a steadily expanding swathe of the country by a relentless Israeli campaign of evacuations and airstrikes.
The U.S.-brokered ?truce announced on April 16, after about six weeks of fighting, has failed to halt the violence between Israel and Hezbollah. Both are carrying out near-daily attacks while accusing the other of violating the pact.
That¡¯s left hundreds of thousands of civilians in southern Lebanon displaced from their homes. Shortly after the ceasefire declaration, Israel published a map marking out a buffer zone covering nearly 600 square kilometers that it had occupied with ground forces, and listing 57 towns and villages where it had warned residents to evacuate.
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