Residents of a south Lebanon town are waiting to fix their damaged homes as Israel is scheduled to end its military presence north of its border.

The Lebanese army fired tear gas on Saturday at Hezbollah supporters protesting around Beirut airport against Lebanon blocking an Iranian flight to Beirut this week after the Israeli military accused Tehran of using civilian aircraft to smuggle cash to Beirut to arm the Lebanese group.

Israel must fully withdraw on February 18, it has no excuse,” the Hezbollah chief said in a televised address cited by France 24. “It is the responsibility of the Lebanese state to take a firm stance and force Israel to withdraw,

The war has left more than 4,000 people dead and over 16,000 wounded in Lebanon and caused damage worth billions of dollars. “Damage can be compensated but the loss of souls cannot be replaced,” said Abdullah as she sat on a plastic chair in the sun outside her shop.

There has been a serious escalation on the Lebanon-Syria border over the past week after Syrian forces launched an operation targeting illegal checkpoints used for narcotics and weapon smuggling.

An Israeli drone strike targeted a car in the southern Lebanon port city of Sidon on Monday, the deepest strike in the country since a ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel took effect in late November,

Tens of thousands of mourners dressed in black vowed support for Hezbollah at the Beirut funeral of slain leader Hassan Nasrallah Sunday, after the group was dealt major blows in

Naim Qassem said any Israeli military presence on Lebanese soil after February 18 would be considered an occupying force.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the incident, which comes two days before the deadline for implementation of a ceasefire agreement that ended the latest war between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in late November,

Hezbollah has told Newsweek it rejected the Israeli military's recent claims that an elite Iranian unit was illicitly using civilian flights at Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport to transfer funds to the Lebanese group in the midst of a ceasefire.