[News] Liberation of South Lebanon: Crowds lead the Second Sunday of Return

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Liberation of South Lebanon: Crowds lead the Second Sunday of Return
Al Mayadeen English
February 2, 2025
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Lebanese crowds gather from all across the country to back the steadfast
southern citizens as they demand the liberation of their occupied towns.
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   - A Lebanese woman holds a portrait of martyred Hezbollah's martyred
   leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, as she sits in a car with her family on
   their way to check their village in the Bint Jbeil town, south Lebanon, on
   Sunday, January 26, 2025. (*AP*)

Civilians gathered from all around Lebanon at the entrances of border
villages
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in the Lebanese South on Sunday morning, in support of those trying to
liberate their hometowns where Israeli occupation forces had not withdrawn.

The public mobilization was called "The Sunday of Return 2", per the
revolutionary movement of Lebanese crowds to the southern border, which
took place last Sunday.

*Al Mayadeen*'s correspondent in South Lebanon reported crowds in the
village of Deir Mimas, where civilians and residents set up tents in a show
of popular resistance against the Israeli occupation.

Meanwhile, in Yaroun, Israeli occupation soldiers fired at civilians to
curb and obstruct their return.

Citizens from Baalbek, eastern Lebanon, headed to the south to back their
fellow countrymen as they defied the Israeli occupation's continued
occupation of their towns. One resident said, "We came to stand by our
people of the South."

This comes as the Israeli occupation forces continue to breach Resolution
1701
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and the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon, particularly in the frontline
villages along the border with occupied Palestine, despite the expiration
of the 60-day withdrawal deadline outlined in the agreement.

*Al Mayadeen*’s correspondent in southern Lebanon reported on Saturday that
invading Israeli units are setting fire to homes on the outskirts of
Aitaroun in the Bint Jbeil district, as well as in Rub Thalathin near the
occupied Palestinian border.

Our correspondent also stated that an Israeli Quadcopter dropped a bomb on
a bulldozer working to retrieve the bodies of martyrs in Central Taybeh, in
the Marjayoun district.

*Read more: Unarmed southern Lebanese defy Israeli occupation; injuries
reported
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/unarmed-southern-lebanese-defy-israeli-occupation--injuries>*
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