article Upclose test-Amid mass destruction by Israel, displaced Lebanese rush home after ceasefire
The residential and commercial neighbourhoods had been upended by Israeli strikes, including in the final hours before the halt to hostilities began.
Entire buildings had been toppled, their roofs now slanting to the floor with thick concrete slabs, wires and broken household items littering the floor.
A man could be seen carrying a toddler on the sloping roof of a building, stepping around roof shingles, satellite dishes and crushed water tanks rolling towards the ground.
Among those returning home was Zahi Hijazi, a 67-year-old who originally hails from southern Lebanon but had been living in Beirut's suburbs for decades.
Source: CNA
