
Men play football on the beach in the southern city of Tyre as a damaged building is visible in the background (L) on July 12, 2026. Under a framework agreement reached on June 26, Israel will gradually withdraw from areas of southern Lebanon where it has deployed troops to fight Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Shia movement. The war, which began in early March when Hezbollah entered the wider Middle East conflict on the side of its backer Iran, displaced more than a million people in Lebanon, according to the UN's humanitarian agency OCHA. (Photo by Kawnat HAJU / AFP via Getty Images) /


