Celebrations across Lebanon as ceasefire comes into effect.

Residents took to the streets, setting off fireworks and celebrating the 10-day ceasefire, as photos and videos on social media showed. Thousands of displaced families flooded the main highway leading to southern Lebanon just hours after the ceasefire took effect, to return to their homes in southern Lebanon.

“If we had to leave again, I can’t describe how frustrating it would be; it would be devastating,” Israa Jaber told the New York Times, sitting in her car stuck in traffic, heading south toward her home in the town of Srifa. In Qasmiyeh, a town located along the highway that borders Lebanon, Lebanese army soldiers, US media report, are using excavators to repair a bridge that connects the north to the south of the country.

The crossing has become a traffic hotspot after all the major bridges over the Litani River, which divides northern and southern Lebanon, were bombed over the past month and a half. Yesterday, Israeli forces struck the Qasmiyeh bridge again, just hours before the ceasefire was announced.